a vision for a recovery model in irish mental health services

A Qualitative Analysis of Submissions to the Mental Health Commission on the Discussion PaperA Vision for a Recovery Model in Irish Mental Health ServicesAnother minor theme was the need for improving the involvement of service users (“Thefull integration of service users in the planning and delivery of care. This would includeparticipation at local Management level, the recruitment of staff, the development ofservices and the development of Mental Health Support Workers as envisaged in the ‘Visionfor Change’”). Furthermore, funding was highlighted as a single factor (“The single best thingthe health service could do to promote recovery is to ring fence a substantial proportionof health expenditure for people with serious mental illness…it is essential that the fundingallocated is actually available and spent on the services to which it is attributed”).Other ‘single factors’ that were mentioned by at least two respondents included: the buildingof a sound evidence base for the recovery model; and the drawing up of national codes ofpractice for the model with a formal auditing to ensure implementation. Finally, a numberof respondents (n=4; 6%) commented that there is not one single factor necessary but thatthere are many important interacting variables that will contribute to the promotion of therecovery model (“to promote a recovery approach there has to be simultaneous attentionto many interacting variables”).20