There are many ways to share information about your changes. This can include how your service communicates with the wider system and can also involve including people with lived and living experience.
Sharing the impact of your changes can support accelerating good practice throughout the system, allowing other areas to use your experiences and approaches to drive change forward. Using different methods of information sharing and networks will allow for replication of what works in practice.
Once changes have commenced, it may be worth holding a specific local webinar or in-person workshop where the clinical team can demonstrate the changes. The links below give some advice about the kinds of things to consider when commencing change.
Patient information leaflets
NHS Dumfries and Galloway SCM pathway: visualisation
This is a useful resource that highlights how you can communicate information about your service in a succinct and visual way with the wider system and with patients, as well as any changes to your service.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde: Borderline and beyond
These resource showcases how insights from the lived and living experience can support services to communicate more effectively with wider audiences, demonstrating how lived and living experience can meaningfully shape clear, relevant and accessible service communications.
Networks
Scottish Personality Disorder Network
SPDN brings together people with lived experience, carers and professionals in a supportive space, to support further the understanding around the challenges faced by people with a diagnosis and to improve services for a group that can often be overlooked. Provides a range of resources such as learning and training and informational videos.
British and Irish Group for the study of Personality Disorder (BIGSPD)
BIGSPD is a forum for networking in the field of personality disorder and places significant value on the voices of lived and living experience. The PDIP programme contributed to the 2023 conference that was held in Glasgow.
National learning system
Events and workshops
A range of webinars examining important issues such as integrated care pathways and specialised services, diagnosis and formulation, challenges around diagnosis, staff development, stigma, crisis and unscheduled care.
Personality Disorder Improvement Programme Launch Event
Integrated care pathways and specialised services
Diagnosis and formulation
The challenges of diagnosis workshop
Moving from consultation to codesign
Staff development and therapeutic approaches
See Me ‘Reducing Stigma’ workshop
Crisis and unscheduled care
End of phase 1
Mental Health Reform launch
Thoughtful and ethical approaches to risk for people with a diagnosis of personality disorder
Case studies
Case studies on an example of collaborative working with NHS Lanarkshire, Scottish Recovery Network and people with lived experience and an example of a model of staff training in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Further information about the PDIP programme can be found here.
Example of collaborative working with NHS Lanarkshire, the Scottish Recovery Network and people with lived experience
Example of a model of staff training in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde