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The Health Minister has pledged that charities will not be overburdened with work following the introduction of the new Jersey Care Model.
It follows Mind Jersey warning that care must be taken to ensure any plans to commission more work in partnership with the third sector should not become “burdensome.”
Speaking to Express at the opening of the refurbished La Chasse mental health facility, Health Minister Richard Renouf said: “We certainly don’t plan to overburden [the third sector], we want to resource them.
“This is what I mean by working with the third sector, and Mind would be included in that: to work out what they can offer, to work out what additional resources they might need to provide services as looking at the picture across the island.”
Pictured: Health Minister Richard Renouf spoke at the opening of the refurbished La Chasse Mental Health Facility.
A recent Scrutiny review into the new Care Model revealed the concerns from Mind Jersey about the potential increased workload that could come as a result of a new commissioning framework.
On the framework, Mind said: “Care must be taken to ensure that this process is proportionate and not burdensome, especially in regard to smaller charities where investment in infrastructure has been modest and their capacity to engage in complex data collection and reporting is limited.”
In addition, whilst describing the idea of services being transferred into the community as “very welcome”, they commented that the objective “needs to be backed up by considerable investment in existing and additional services.”
Collaboration with the third sector has become an increasingly prominent part of the Government’s mental health services in recent years, with the Listening Lounge reporting that they had 1,429 self-referrals within their first year.
At Orchard House too, partnerships with the third sector have become an integral part of treatment, with Associate Medical Director Dr Miguel Garcia-Alcaraz saying that “we have a range of links with the third sector - like the Recovery College, Mind Jersey, Focus - that are really helping us to put in place activities that will help the individuals in recovery.”
The Government has claimed that implementing the model, which was approved by States members in a vote last week, will help bring about savings of £874m by 2036.
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