Tyne and Wear Citizens Mental Health Commission:

Data analysis and co-producing the recommendations.

Tyne and Wear Citizens (TWC) is an alliance of member institutions across Tyne and Wear, which includes schools, university departments, faith groups and charities. TWC are a local Chapter of Citizens UK.

Tyne and Wear Citizens set up a Citizens Commission on Mental Health: wellbeing and public life in the North East. The commission aimed to map problems and identify solutions around mental health services. The aim was to identify creative and innovative solutions to everyday mental health problems. Citizens themselves are very much seen as part of the solution, and three public hearings were held to collect evidence for the Commission’s report. The evidence and recommendations for the final report were derived from people's personal and professional testimony of what was good, and what needed improving, with regard to mental health services in the North East.

AskFuse was approached by the Citizens commission with regard to identifying Fuse researchers to analyse and co-produce the report, gather evidence of good practice nationally and internationally, thematically analyse submitted transcripts and testimonials, co-produce recommendations to ensure they reflect testimonial evidence submitted, and provide input for the Compact (a formal agreement) between mental health services in the region).

AskFuse supported this enquiry by writing a research brief that was sent to Fuse researchers with expertise in this area of data analysis. AskFuse then facilitated meetings between the researchers and Commission representatives.

This request for data analysis and co-production of the final report, which was facilitated by AskFuse, will be completed in November 2018. [ADD LINK]

For more information, please contact:
AskFuse manager: Peter van der Graaf
Phone: 01642 342757
Email: p.van.der.Graaf@tees.ac.uk

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