Scottish Mental Health Nursing Review

11. Delivery

We know wider partnership work will be crucial; achieving the ambitions within this report will rely largely on mental health nurses and wider partners, who work within and across sectors. This includes local and national government, public bodies such as the NHS, social care sector, NES and those in the independent sector, academics, and students.

A new Mental Health Nursing Review Implementation Group will be established to ensure effective collaboration, delivery, monitoring, and evaluation of the Review actions. This Group will consist of mental health nurses working across a variety of sectors, roles, and grades, as well as students and organisations representing those with lived experience of mental health nursing care, to ensure a continuation of our human centred design principles.

Working with Scotland’s Executive Nurse Directors (SEND), nurse leaders working in our Health and Social Care Partnerships, senior nurse leaders in the social care and independent sectors, trade union partners and Human Resources Directors, we will establish local structures to ensure collaborative working to implement monitor and evaluate the review actions, feeding back through the Review Implementation Group.

In progressing the actions across the Review, we recognise the differing roles, responsibilities, and capacity of our colleagues. Each action will be led jointly - or by the most appropriate partner, whilst maintaining a spirit of collaboration and joint oversight, through the Mental Health and Wellbeing Leadership Board and Nursing and Midwifery Taskforce Ministerial Oversight Group.

In collaboration with our partners, we will look to prioritise activity, through a phased and dynamic approach to implementation. This will ensure activity is pragmatic and realistic to achieve, in recognition of ongoing financial and workforce pressures across the systems. This approach will allow us to regularly review and measure success of ongoing activity, whilst adapting and responding to new and emerging challenges, innovation, and evidence, as well as feedback from our stakeholders.