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Who is involved?

Living Well UK aimed to build “Living Well systems of support" that put people's strengths and lived experience at the centre and are designed to help people recover and stay well as part of their community. 

Living Well systems of support are distinguishable by a set of key features. These have been embodied by Living Well sites in different ways.

 

They prioritise working systemically in the following ways:

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Outcomes

Are accountable for people centred outcomes that promote choice, recovery and citizenship

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Citizens

See people as citizens within communities, rather than ‘patients’ or ‘professionals’

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Voice

Put the voice of lived experience at the centre of services and
the system

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Networks

Activate supportive
social networks 

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Access

Provide timely access
to support whereit is needed 

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Collaboration

Work collaboratively
and flatten hierarchies

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Strengths

Work holistically, building up
and on people’s strengths

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Learning

Have permission to test
and learn together

Salford

Salford created new interventions for people with complex social and mental health needs who fall through the gap between primary and secondary care.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh has an ambitious whole city plan for Mental Health and Wellbeing called
Thrive Edinburgh.

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Derbyshire

Derbyshire has articulated a bold vision for person-centred, holistic and community based care and support and transformed how community mental health support is delivered, across their eight localities

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Tameside & Glossop

Tameside and Glossop created Living Life Well, a new system wide approach to mental health that ensures people never ‘fall between the thresholds’ of services.

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Luton

Luton wanted to ‘reimagine mental health’ by
co-designing new rapid access offers that could help
resolve distress in people’s lives.

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Greater Manchester

In response to the national community mental health transformation framework, Greater Manchester set out to radically improve mental health support and address the historic challenges of a fragmented system.

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