We want to improve outcomes for patients, staff, service users and carers through:

  1. Proactive identification and assessment of physical, psychological, and social needs of service users;
  2. Enhancing or developing holistic services to fully embed a mind and body approach across our partnership;
  3. Learning and development to upskill our workforce with the knowledge and confidence to practice whole person care.

Our impact

Our impact on patients is illustrated in a number of case studies:

Since 2016/17, our education and training workstream has seen:

  • More than 8,000 new staff receiving Mind & Body information in their inductions;
  • More than 600 completions of our e-learning module;
  • 2500 staff receiving in-person training;
  • The delivery of nine Adult and Children and Young People Clinical skills courses, reaching 200 participants in total;
  • More than 200 downloads of a dedicated Staff Health and Wellbeing Toolkit;
  • More than 13,000 sign ups for our Massive Open Online Course.

Some of our key highlights since 2018 include:

  • Securing £3.5m of grant income to support projects relating to integrating physical and mental health;
  • Starting a £1.7m three-year project to improve physical health of mental health service users, aiming to improve pathways and experience of care between mental and physical health settings;
  • Signing up to national ‘Equally Well’ collaborative, focused on improving physical health of those with severe mental illness. We hosted a learning event in May 2019 which was rated an average of 4.8 out of 5 by attendees, with 100% of members saying they would highly recommend an event like this to a colleague. You can read the blog on the Equally Well website.
  • Securing a £40,000 Health Education England (HEE) Workforce grant to empower future leaders of the mental health workforce. This included the Staff Health and Wellbeing Toolkit. Our toolkit launch analysis indicated that 91% of attendees felt more confident in supporting their own or their colleagues’ wellbeing.

The Mind & Body Team is developing our capacity to enable us to increase the research and evaluation done within the team and our collaborations with other parts of KHP and south east London. Mind & Body brings together a wealth of clinical, health delivery, policy and research expertise to offer unique opportunities to improve mind and body related research and evaluation. 

Examples of current projects include: 

  • Development of our new Mind & Body research and evaluation strategy and framework; 
  • Lessons learned from the implementation of the IMPARTS project; 
  • Evaluation of the implementation and impact of the King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Workforce Social Support project funded by Impact on Urban Health; 
  • Understanding engagement and attrition in the patient pathway of the PEACS project; 
  • We have expertise in many aspects of clinically-facing research and evaluation including research design, qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, and implementation science. This allows the team to combine our expertise to undertake bespoke evaluations and research studies. 

Support

We are able to offer a range support with existing research, help with developing new studies or evaluations, and delivering commissioned work. Available support includes: 

  • Evaluation design and support: providing independent, expert advice and support to ensure robust, high-quality evaluation delivery; 
  • Mixed method evaluations of a range of sizes from smaller, targeted or local innovations or care pathways to wider system-wide programmes of work. 

If you would like to speak to us about our research and evaluation expertise and how we can support you, please email us at mindandbody@slam.nhs.uk 

How do we evaluate?

The Mind & Body Programme Team is using an Implementation Science framework to assess the extent to which our interventions and approaches are effective to date.

A Logic Model has been developed as a process for understanding how our efforts and initiatives are designed to work. Existing data that is routinely collected from training courses has been analysed. This includes feedback from the King’s Health Partners Stakeholder Survey (2019), Learning and Development Workforce Survey (2015-2018), and the Staff Health & Wellbeing Toolkit launch event (March 2019) to highlight any gaps in our understanding of our programme activities.

Through the evaluation process, this will enable the Mind & Body Programme Team to optimise intervention benefits, prolong the sustainability of our programme interventions and promote dissemination of findings to support shared learning and understanding which can then be translated into other contexts, perhaps regionally and nationally. It is thought that by conducting initial implementation work, this could lead to future evaluation of Mind & Body approaches.

To request accessible versions of any of these reports, please contact mindandbody@slam.nhs.uk.