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Editorial Di Bailey Reader in Social Work, School of Applied Social Sciences, University of Durham and Deputy Lead of the North East Hub of the Mental Health Research Network People who use mental health services have campaigned and fought to influence the care they receive from as early as 1620, when the inmates of the House of Bedlam presented a petition to parliament (Weinstein, 2010). Effective partnership working with people who use mental health services and their carers remains fundamental to the modernisation agenda for mental health services today in the 21st century. The question that professionals and service providers now ask about service user involvement is not ‘whether’ to involve but rather about ‘how’ to do so in ways that optimise and enhance care delivery and intrinsically benefit colleagues who contribute to the change agenda from their perspective as ‘experts by experience’. The National Service Framework (NSF) for Mental Health (Department of Health, 1999) states that service users should be involved in planning, providing and evaluating education and training (p109) and the National Service Framework – Five years on (Appleby, 2004) highlights the need for the parallel involvement of carers in the way that mental health care is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice Pier Professional

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Pier Professional
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Copyright © 2010 by Pier Professional Limited
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1755-6228
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2042-8707
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10.5042/jmhtep.2010.0213
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Di Bailey Reader in Social Work, School of Applied Social Sciences, University of Durham and Deputy Lead of the North East Hub of the Mental Health Research Network People who use mental health services have campaigned and fought to influence the care they receive from as early as 1620, when the inmates of the House of Bedlam presented a petition to parliament (Weinstein, 2010). Effective partnership working with people who use mental health services and their carers remains fundamental to the modernisation agenda for mental health services today in the 21st century. The question that professionals and service providers now ask about service user involvement is not ‘whether’ to involve but rather about ‘how’ to do so in ways that optimise and enhance care delivery and intrinsically benefit colleagues who contribute to the change agenda from their perspective as ‘experts by experience’. The National Service Framework (NSF) for Mental Health (Department of Health, 1999) states that service users should be involved in planning, providing and evaluating education and training (p109) and the National Service Framework – Five years on (Appleby, 2004) highlights the need for the parallel involvement of carers in the way that mental health care is

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The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice – Pier Professional

Published: Mar 1, 2010

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