Source · Select Committees · Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 5
5
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Co-production and peer support essential for trusted and effective mental health services
Conclusion
Services shaped and delivered with, and by, people with lived experience of mental illness are more trusted, accessible, and effective. Meaningful co-production—where power is shared and lived experience is valued—is essential to high-quality care. Peer support, in particular, is a vital part of recovery both for service users and peer support workers, offering connection, understanding, and dignity in ways that clinical services often cannot. (Conclusion, Paragraph 59)
Government response summary AI-generated
The government partially accepts the recommendation but then discusses a plan for scaling up community-based mental health centres following evaluation of pilots, which is unrelated to the committee's conclusion on the value of co-production and peer support.
Summary of the government's response below — read the verbatim text to verify.
Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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The government accepts this recommendation. The government is committed to ensuring that the MSF for SMI is developed through genuine co-production with people with lived experience. That is why we have recruited a third co-chair for the MSF, Jo Lomani, who is a national mental health co-production lead and expert by lived and living experience. Jo will support the implementation of our lived-experience involvement and co-production strategy to ensure that people who use mental health services stay at the centre of everything we do. So far, Jo has played a critical role in ensuring our approach to engagement is accessible for people with lived experience and effective in facilitating their input. We recognise that partnership working with VCSFE organisations, local authorities and other organisations is important to the delivery of holistic and equitable mental health care. To ensure that the MSF accounts for this, we will be engaging with relevant representatives from these sectors. As mentioned, we also plan to take forward insights from the community based mental health centre pilots, which we expect will provide important learning in this regard.
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