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FT Consultation

The Trust is applying to become an NHS Foundation Trust

An NHS Foundation Trust

Your Local Mental Health NHS Trust

• £6m Investment in Trust

Buildings & Infrastructure

• A new sensory room (Bushey

Fields Hospital) for older adults

• National accreditation for Memory

Service Team (Bloxwich Hospital)

• Implementation of Involvement Agenda

What is a Foundation Trust?

NHS care stays free at point of delivery Independent public benefit corporation Your mental health services with local “ownership” Greater autonomy – regulated by MONITOR Enables longer term financial planning More flexibility to innovate

Foundation Trust - Benefits

Better…Accountability Better…Innovation Better…Influence Better…Quality Better…Investment Better…Viability

Foundation Trust Governance

Members Council of Governors The Board of Directors

Public Consultation stage was launched Monday 8 August

We Need Your Views

We want Your Views on our service:

• Proposals for our new name as a Foundation Trust
• Proposals around our approach to membership
• Proposals on how we will run our Council of Governors
• Plans and priorities for our future as a Foundation Trust

Our Name Proposals

We want Your Views on what our name could be once authorised as a Foundation Trust: A: Dudley & Walsall Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust B: Black Country Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust C: Better Together Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust D: DW Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust E: Other suggestions

Our Membership Proposals

We propose our Membership is comprised of the following:

A Publi lic c and Servic ice e User & Carer Consti titu tuency ency A Staff f Constit tituen uency cy

Our Council of Governor Proposals

Area of the public constituency Number of Governors Walsall 4 Dudley 4 Rest of Black Country, West Midlands and England 1 Staff Class Number of Governors All staff 5 Appointee Organisation Number of Governors Local PCT Commissioner 1 Dudley and Walsall Metropolitan Borough Councils 1 Staff Side 1

We propose our Council of Governors is comprised of the following: Elected Governors Appointed Governors

Our Proposals for the Future

A key part of our future as a Foundation Trust is Service ce Transformation sformation:

• Increased focus on treatment and recovery
• Fully integrated teams
• Congruent with Care Clusters
• Opportunities for short term treatments with EAT
• Standardisation of practice
• Complies with Age Discrimination Act
• Provides single point of access
• Removes multiple assessments
• Highly skilled clinicians at front end
• Improves Referral to Treatment Time

Key Benefits

What do you need to do?

Respond to our consultation and encourage friends & family to do the same Consider standing for election as a public governor Become a member

For more information

Visit our website at: www.dwmh.nhs.uk/foundationtrust Email ft@dwmh.nhs.uk Telephone the Foundation Trust office on: 01384 364039

Questions