The Culture of Care (CofC) Programme is a major landmark in UK Mental health service delivery. It was codeveloped to reimagine the culture of care across NHS-funded mental health, learning disability and autism inpatient settings. At the heart of the culture transformation are three equity principles, trauma-informed approaches, anti-racism and autism informed approaches.
This presentation will give an overview of those three equity principles, how they have informed the delivery of the Culture of Care programme at NCCMH and what they may mean for the future of inpatient care in this country. We will share lived experience perspectives on what each equity principle means as well as tangible examples about what they look and feel like in practice.
Through sharing stories from our work, we will explore the role of lived experience leadership in the delivery of the CofC programme the embedding of the three equity principles across the work. We will consider how centering experiential knowledge through lived experience leadership can help ward teams and organisations to reflect on racism, trauma and neurodivergence. We will showcase the spectrum of coproduction and how a range of lived experience roles have added value and wisdom to the programme.
By attending this session you will:
- Gain an overview of what autism informed, trauma informed and anti-racist approaches look and feel like in the context of changing the culture of inpatient care
- Get a sense of the value of lived experience leadership and perspectives in driving these equity principles
- Have the opportunity to explore the need for experiential knowledge in progressing culture change in mental health services.
Learning objectives
The objectives of this session are:
- To understand each of the three equity principles of the Culture of Care, autism-informed, anti-racist and trauma-informed and what they look and feel like in practice
- To explore the role and value of lived experience leadership in the delivery of culture change work
- To examine the relationship between coproduction, lived experience leadership and addressing oppression and health inequalities in inpatient care.
Speakers
Chair: Professor Brendan Stone, University of Sheffield, Sheffield
Mx Jill Corbyn, Neurodiverse Connection, London
Dr Jacqui Dyer, Black Thrive Global, London
Dr Sophie Bagge, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich, United Kingdom
Availability
This webinar is part of the Congress webinar 2025 package. If you attended all four days of Congress, you will have access to these as part of your Congress package. Otherwise the Congress webinar 2025 package can be purchased below.
