At a Westminster Health Forum seminar last month, Rt Hon Paul Burstow, Chair of Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and former Minister of State for Care Service, talked about the immense challenges of rising demand and funding pressures on mental health services and about new models of care to help providers address those challenges.
The presentation highlighted the challenges for providers of children and young people’s mental health services; half of lifelong mental health problems first arise in teenage years, and yet just 6 pence in every £1 the NHS spends goes toward children and young people’s mental health.
THRIVE is a new model of service delivery for CAMHS, developed by Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust with the Anna Freud Centre. It builds on the CYP IAPT programme’s focus on outcomes and the engagement of children and young people in designing services. THRIVE aims to work with families, schools and children themselves to promote mental health and wellbeing and to prevent problems becoming entrenched.
Source: The AFC-Tavistock Model for CAMHS
THRIVE attempts to create a clearer distinction than in the current tiered system between treatment and support, self-management and intervention. Eleven CAMHS providers across the country have formed i-THRIVE, a community of practice to test the model, share best practice and collect outcomes data. The THRIVE model is complementary to CYP IAPT and has been cited as a way forward in many Local Transformation Plans across the country.
Discover more about THRIVE here.
