1. Northern England Strategic Clinical Network Conference 15 th May 2015 Mental health Dr Angus Bell and Dr Philippa Bolton

2. SYNERGY What has the Network done? Culture shift – XS mortality as parity of esteem How many unnecessary deaths are acceptable? Smoking as Parity of esteem Smoking cessation and smoke free services Regional and Trust events PASU EIP screening – regional and national.

3. Synergy 2 National Physical health CQUIN – Lester tool NTW and TEWV pilot projects with NHS IQ Collaboration with Primary care Darlington CCG Physical Health monitoring system across Primary and Secondary care Crisis Concordat

4. Synergy opportunities Mental health Access and waiting times Regional event Alcohol Mental health in physical health settings Suicide prevention Cumbria

5. Meeting the Commissioners Introductory event with commissioners, NECS and local authority representatives.

6. OUTCOMES “It’s lonely being a mental health commissioner” Share best practice Identify inequity of service provision in primary care mental health and aim to reduce this across the region Offer web based forum for discussion and information sharing Quarterly half day networking events.

7. Medically unexplained symptoms

8. Commissioning for Functional Neurological Disorders April 2015 Commissioning for Functional Neurological Disorders April 2015