Service Development, Organization, Strategy, and Delivery Meeting Date: 26 May, 2010 Time: 2:45 pm - 4:00 pm Place: Westin Bayshore Hotel, Vancouver, CANADA Room: TBA
Are you someone who manages Forensic mental health services or contracts to have them provided? You could be a manager (clinical or general), an administrator or a Director. Equally you could be a purchaser, commissioner or government or court official responsible for Forensic Mental Health services, if so the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services (www.iafmhs.org) has established an Administrators section within the IAFMHS to cater for our needs. Across the world models of treatment services for mentally ill or personality disordered offenders differ greatly. This section would give an opportunity for those people responsible for running or buying these services to exchange ideas. To date the IAFMHS and many other organisations cater for comparison, study and research of scientific and clinical matters but there appears to be no opportunity for similar study or research into the management of these organisations. Our hope is that this section would become such a forum for the exchange of experiences and ideas where the participants do not have to represent any formal system but can be open for discussion. We believe that the opportunity to study , compare and benchmark services will enable us to run our services more effectively leading to a better quality of care and more efficiently enabling us to provide a better quality service within finite budgets. Target group As above those responsible for managing or commissioning forensic mental health services or those responsible for the administrative or legal structure in which such services run. This could be people from the legal or government system, the people responsible for buying or commissioning these services be they in the public or private sectors and those responsible for managing or directing the services be they clinicians or general managers or administrators. Goals · Identifying an interested group · Learning from each others service models · Potentially setting up scientific study of the provision of service models · Benchmarking services How to achieve these goals · Meet annually during the IAFMHS conference with future appropriate symposia or academic sessions · Identify a directory of like minded people to share information and encourage research and written papers. If you are interested in joining our group please sign up for the section meeting at our Annual Conference May 25-27, 2010, Vancouver, Canada. Speak to Tracey Moropito IAFMHS conference coordinator at the conference or Rüdiger Müller-Isberner, Director or Mike Harris Treasurer IAFMHS either at the conference or by email. Contacts: Dr. Rüdiger Müller-Isberner: rmi@psych-haina.de Dr. Mike Harris: mike.harris@nottshc.nhs.uk Tracey Moropito tmoropito@iafmhs.org
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