To the moon and back: exploring leadership in mental health services

With mental health high on the new government’s agenda, reflecting the crisis we are dealing with as a society and a health and care system, what does this mean for leadership?

More than six years on from the CQC’s report Strong leadership essential to delivering improvement in mental health hospital care, we brought together a community of current and future leaders to explore:

• What are the challenges and opportunities for current and future leaders of mental health services?
• What does that mean for the kind of leadership we need today and to develop for tomorrow?
• What can we do – individually and collectively – in response?

Watch the full event

Watch the video of the event below.

Who’s speaking?

• Jane Padmore, Chief Executive of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. SPFT provides mental health, learning disability and neuro-developmental services to children, young people, and adults living in south east England.
• Andy Bell, Chief Executive of the Centre for Mental Health. He leads their work towards equality, social justice and mental health for all.
• Shane Carmichael, part of Kaleidoscope Health and Care, and Trustee at Mosaic Clubhouse in Lambeth, a community care provider that supports people living with long term poor mental health. Shane is also a long time user of acute and community mental health services.

Who’s the event for?

As well as people with lived experience of leadership in or for mental health, this event is particularly aimed at those with an interest in:

• the current and future challenges and opportunities for leadership across the mental health sector
• systems and organisation change
• how ambitious government strategy and policy (in this instance, on tackling the mental health crisis) can be translated into practical action in our systems.