Trieste in England: Changing the Culture and Practice of Mental Health Care in Inner City Birmingham
摘要
This paper describes a current project to introduce the Trieste model of mental health care, recognised as one of the best mental health systems, in the UK. We describe the essential components of the Trieste model and how these will be adapted and applied in Birmingham, UK, as part of a collaborative and inclusive pilot project in the National Health Service, UK. This model takes a ‘whole life approach’ to mental health, that is based on hospitality, recognising the importance of social context and social networks and family for the individual. We describe how we plan to take the learning from the Trieste Model and adapt it to the needs of inner-city East Birmingham and the importance of coproduction. The selected population for this pilot project is very dissimilar to Trieste, it is among the 10% most deprived wards in England, with less than 50% employed or economically active. 90% are from Black, Asian and minority ethnic background, mainly South Asian, Pakistani and include second and third generation migrants. Doing this in this area will help us better understand and address the health inequalities for this community with them.