Ms Anne O'Connor:

In recent years we have increased the number of teams, improved our infrastructure and developed clinical programmes looking at self-harm, early intervention psychosis and eating disorders. We have new eating disorders teams for adults and children. We are progressing dual diagnosis services. We have improved quality and safety by looking at all sorts of systems within our units and community teams. We have increased the compliance of our units in line with the Mental Health Commission requirements. We have looked at the involvement of service users and the employment of peer support workers in the services. Much money has gone on a range of things to do with service users and the development of a recovery ethos within our services, looking at how we use service users within services to inform the design and delivery of our services. There are a number of strands of improvement, and that is where the additional money has gone. The growth in funding from the development money that we have had in the last number of years has been primarily around the improvements related to clinical programmes, quality and patient safety, and service user involvement.