Integrated Care Demonstrator Site: Mental Health Social Work

  • Research type

    Research Study

  • Full title

    Integrated Care Models Evaluating Mersey Care NHS Trust’s Mental Health Social Work Integrated Support & Development programme

  • IRAS ID

    177259

  • Contact name

    Sarah Matthews

  • Contact email

    sarah.matthews@open.ac.uk

  • Sponsor organisation

    Mersey Care NHS Trust

  • Duration of Study in the UK

    0 years, 7 months, 26 days

  • Research summary

    This project aims to capture confidence in the role of mental health social work interventions, thinking and approaches in integrated settings, including understanding and working with social networks and communities, and to disseminate this.

    The objective is to strengthen the evaluation which has already been started in a NHS Trust from an objective viewpoint and to explore and build an evidence base for integrated working which is then be disseminated across other integrated mental health services.

  • REC name

    London - Chelsea Research Ethics Committee

  • REC reference

    15/LO/0782

  • Date of REC Opinion

    24 Apr 2015

  • REC opinion

    Favourable Opinion