Commissioning Mental Health Residential and Nursing Care Services

Manchester City Council's Directorate for Adults, Health and Wellbeing is proposing to change the way it commissions Residential and Nursing Care placements for customers with mental ill-health. 

A 12 week consultation process ran from 6 December 2011 and ended on 28 February 2012. 

We have been seeking the views of both existing and prospective Service Providers in relation to our future commissioning intentions and the development of a mental health specific, service specification and pricing framework. 

Context

In February 2011, the Directorate completed an 18 month strategic commissioning review of all its Mental Health Residential and Nursing placements.  This is the first time the Department had completed such a wide ranging and detailed service review of mental health.

As a result of this review the Directorate wants to change the way its Residential and Nursing Care services are delivered for its customers. 

We want to commission mental health services whose delivery models are underpinned by the principles of recovery orientated practice.  People with mental health problems can and do recover.  This may or may not include clinical recovery but does mean, as much as individually possible, leading a fulfilling life and contributing to society and Manchester 's local economy.

Along with Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust the Directorate is one of only six national demonstrator sites who are tasked with delivering "Implementing Recovery a method for organisational change" which is a national initiative sponsored by the Department of Health, NHS Confederation and the Centre for Mental Health.

This mental health initiative challenges all of us to change our organisational culture and day to day practice, to become more recovery orientated and achieve better outcomes for customers.

Mental Health Service Specification and Pricing Framework

The proposed service specification is broadly based on the following key building blocks:

• Implementing Recovery a Method for Organisational change
• The Mental Health Recovery Star model 
• A Recovery Outcomes and Quality Framework
• The Mental Health Pricing Framework

These last two points are encompassed in the single document "Combined Specification and Pricing Framework".

We are currently in the process of collating and analysing the views put forwards by interested parties, and we will publish our findings, and in due course our new, agreed Commissioning Framework, on these pages.

If you have any questions about this consultation, please email mentalhealthrecovery@manchester.gov.uk