Carers Partnership Board
The Carers Partnership Board meets every two months online, bringing together:
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Key health and social care partners
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Unpaid carers with lived experience
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Representatives from local health and social care organisations.
The board provides strategic and operational oversight of the Our Commitment to Carers Action Plan, ensuring that the voices of unpaid carers help shape local services.
Learning Disability Partnership Board
The Learning Disability Partnership Board work hard together to make things better for people with learning disabilities who live in Tower Hamlets.
About the board
Our Local Learning Disability Partnership Board (LDPB) meets regularly and brings together professionals and people with lived experience to promote the welfare and experience of adults with a learning disability to help shape our strategy and services.
The board discusses the key issues and concerns that are of importance to adults with a learning disability in the borough, working together to make a real difference to people lives[CK1] [AA2] .
Mental Health Partnership Board
The Mental Health Partnership Board works to make things better for people with a mental health issue who live and work in Tower Hamlets. Service user priorities frame the board’s focus; ensuring that all work relating to the Mental Health Partnership Board is undertaken through the joint lens of reducing inequalities and promoting people participation.
What is the Mental Health Partnership Board accountable for?
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Delivering improved outcomes and experience for adults living in Tower Hamlets with mental health needs, including young adults, working age adults, and older adults (including people living with dementia).
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Overseeing compliance with national ‘must dos’ such as those things mandated by the NHS Long Term Plan, and Tower Hamlets Adult Mental Health Strategy.
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Discussing and recommending how money will be prioritised and invested.
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Understanding the performance of services and reviewing whether existing arrangements represent good value for money.
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Leading initiatives and workstreams to deliver local priorities e.g. addressing gaps, unmet needs and health inequalities between groups.
Key principles for how the Mental Health Partnership Board will operate
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Each meeting will explicitly feature feedback and insights from service users and carers in relation to the topic / theme of the meeting.
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The meeting will use data to help members understand performance and pressures on existing services, as well as to measure outcomes and improvements.
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The meeting will use population health insights and data (including insights gathered through community and service user engagement) to understand health inequalities and unmet needs / gaps.
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The meeting is based on the principles of collaboration and power sharing.
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The meeting will facilitate co-design, involving people with lived experience, Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise organisations (VCSEs_ and other non-NHS partners in the design of service transformation programmes and commissioning intentions at a much earlier stage.