York’s Mental Health Partnership has teamed with the Connecting Our City project to develop a new 24/7 community mental health hub in the west of York.
York’s Mental Health Partnership has secured £2,448,856 over two years to fund the hub.
York’s Mental Health Partnership has secured £2,448,856 over two years to fund the hub.
The Mental Health Partnership and Connecting Our City project has teamed up with partners from across the UK city together to improve access to and provision of mental health support for local people.
These include the City of York Council NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB).
The hub
The hub will be open 24/7 to local adults (aged 18+) needing mental health support with no need for a referral.
Compassionate, qualified, and experienced staff will be able to support anyone in distress, helping them to access crisis services and wider support when needed.
During the hub’s core daytime hours, it will be run by a multidisciplinary team of NHS and voluntary sector staff.
This will include clinicians, social workers, social prescribers, and peer support workers who will provide mental health support in the local community in a calm and comfortable environment.
Having successfully secured the NHSE funding, we now can extend that offer into a 24/7 community mental health hub
Professor of Counselling and Mental Health from York St John University, Lynne Gabriel OBE, said: “Through the determined work of the Connecting Our City project and programme team, as well as York Mental Health Partnership colleagues and collaborators, we’ve delivered a daytime co-designed and co-produced community venue and service that provides compassionate person-centred care.”
“Having successfully secured the NHSE funding, we now can extend that offer into a 24/7 community mental health hub. This is an exciting and much-needed innovation,” Gabriel concluded.
Director Care Group Director of Operations and Transformation at Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV), Brian Cranna, added: “This funding will allow us to deliver change more quickly. We can extend our provision and provide support within the community hub 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We look forward to celebrating its success and the positive impact it will have in people’s experience of care and support.”
Top image: the partners at Foss Park, an inpatient hospital for adults and older people. It provides mental health services for people living in the North Yorkshire area.