Useful Resources

All care decisions must come from a sared partnership between the profesional and the child, young person or adult. But for those who do not have capacity for their choices, or may lost that capacity in the future it is important the the right choices are made. Written by health can social care professilans, Deciding Right identifies the triggers for making care decisions in advance, complying with the Mental Capacity Act and the latest national guidelines.

This resource has been developed to raise awareness of shared decision making within commissioning organisations. This commissioning resource explains what shared decision making is and outlines what commissioners can do to support and encourage a more consitent approach with references and web links for shared decision making. 

The Galatean Risk and Safety Tool has been developed to monitor and manage health and wellbeing for mental health service users. It has been developed in partnership with clinicians, but is a tool which can also be used for self-assessment by service users. More information about the tool and it’s development available in this brochure and on the GRiST website.

Making it Real organisations mark their progress and publicly share their priorities and plans for action on Think Local Act Personal. Most importantly, these plans are developed with the full involvement of the people who use their services and carers so they can be held to account by local populations if they don’t deliver on the priorities.