The aims of the Provider Collaborative are to:
- Improve forensic care pathways for care closer to home and in the least restrictive setting
- Improve experience, making sure we involve people in service review and design, and listen to their views
- Focus on the prevention of secure inpatient admission, so people are only admitted to hospital where clinically appropriate
- Invest in new services and better community facilities, to improve ‘step-down’ (rehabilitation) and to reduce the length of stays
- Work as a system, redesigning our services to fit the needs of people and support recovery
- Increase our focus on prevention, recovery and self-care.
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.