Maidenhead & Windsor

The future of mental health services for adults in the Maidenhead Royal Borough will be firmly in the spotlight at a one-day conference to be held next week.

Top of the agenda at the innovative conference – to be held at the Town Hall, Maidenhead on Thursday November 2 from10 am to 3pm - will be a review of the current provision of mental health services for working age adults, alongside a look at the way forward for the next three years.

Organised by the Maidenhead Royal Borough / Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust community mental health team in partnership with Berkshire East Primary Care Trust, the conference will give borough residents, community organisations and local business representatives the opportunity to have their say on developing and improving the quality of mental health services.

Up for discussion will be the draft Mental Health Strategy which seeks to address the needs of working age adults from 18 to 65 and develop plans to prioritise those needs, as well as determining the scope and quality of service that should be available to service users.

Cllr Pam Proctor, lead member for Maidenhead adult services, said: "This conference is a really good way of bringing together everyone in the borough with an interest in adult mental health services and will provide an excellent forum for some really useful discussion.

"It will hopefully help to forge new partnerships between the service users themselves, health and social care providers, carers and the wider community, who are all working towards the same common goal – to provide a range of good quality services which users really want to help them in their daily lives."

Donna Derby, General Manager for Berkshire East PCT, said: "This is a real opportunity to tell us what you think about how services should be delivered for the future. Tell us what is working and what could be improved. It's a conference for everyone – because we could all be the ones who need help one day."

For further information about the conference – or to book a place – contact Louise Gray on 01628 796763 or email Melanie Edridge at Melanie.edridge@rbwm.gov.uk.

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead