Thames Valley Specialised CYP Mental Health Services Provider Collaborative

Who we are

Thames Valley Specialised Children and Young People (CYP) Mental Health Services Provider Collaborative is made up of several NHS organisations working together to improve mental health care for children and young people. Led by Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, the Collaborative is working to make mental health care more local, connected, and efficient, ensuring young people get the support they need closer to home, in the most appropriate environment, reducing the need for hospital stays.

With oversight for quality, safeguarding and governance within mental health care, our goal is to provide children and young people with high-quality specialist care closer to home. By connecting healthcare to their local community, linking up local services and support systems we enable the best possible care to be given.

What we do

We are a group of providers of specialist services working together, for the benefit of some of the most vulnerable of our children and young people. On an agreed footprint we:

• deliver excellent care services.
• share approaches, pathways, resources and clinical expertise.

By working collaboratively, we:

• Invest in alternatives to hospital-based care, with highly specialised services available locally. For example, our Hospital at Home eating disorder team deliver a virtual service, providing intensive treatment for young people with eating disorders whilst allowing them to remain living at home with their families
• Reduce unnecessary inpatient stays. Phoenix House, our day hospital, enables young people to receive intensive treatment and support for their mental health along with continued education. As a day service, young people leave each evening to spend time with their family overnight. The success of Phoenix House means we are replicating this service in other geographies within our network
• Help people leave hospital and return to their home following inpatient care and when they are well enough. Our Case Managers work with hospital wards and partner agencies to ensure young people receive the necessary support and services to recover and avoid future hospitalisations
• Enhance the quality-of-care provided, leading to better outcomes for patients. Our strong partnerships mean together, we achieve improvements that might be difficult for individual providers to accomplish alone.

Our aims

• To jointly commission high quality, seamless pathways for those children and young people who may require inpatient care
• Improved provision of care closer to home through reduced out of area placements
• Improved clinical outcomes and reduced length of stay for children and young people
• Improve the patient experience, making sure we involve people in service review design and review design, and listen to their views
• Improve the quality of care & and experience for young people and families
• Work as a system, redesigning our services to fit the needs of people.

This is an important change in the way services are planned, funded and provided. It means that people who use these services and the clinicians, in partnership, will have greater influence and involvement.

This, in turn, will mean that the Provider Collaborative reinvests funding into improved community services and care pathways for people and their families.

Members

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is the lead provider of this local network, working in partnership to deliver high quality services with:

• Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
• Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

“This pioneering approach is built on the importance of local clinical leadership, co-production and systems leadership. Groups of providers of specialised services work as a partnership with pooled budgets and take responsibility for designing and delivering specialised services for their local population.”