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CPMH Influencing Policy. Catherine Pope Honorary President. A Cinderella Service. So how did we get here?. Congress 2010. A double-sided coin. Changing the professions’ view of mental health from specialist or low priority to “everybody’s business”
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CPMHInfluencing Policy Catherine Pope Honorary President
So how did we get here? Congress 2010
A double-sided coin • Changing the professions’ view of mental health from specialist or low priority to “everybody’s business” • Influencing policy makers about the value of physiotherapy for people with mental health problems
Persuading the Profession • Thinking strategically, being visible • Annual Representatives Conference • CSP Congress • Frontline and Physiotherapy Journal • Pre and post graduation education • Using the evidence • Confronting the complementary therapy question • Mental health physiotherapists are specialists but mental health is everybody’s business • Going international
What happens when you’re invisible? Mental Health NSF 1999 … what happened next?
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Influencing Policy • National Service Frameworks and the fall out • Making the most of the evidence • AMH inpatient guidelines • The opportunity of New Ways of Working • Mental Health AHP Advisory Group • DH Working Groups • Mental Health Network, NHS Confederation • Working with Service Users and Carers