Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 30 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care

A Vision for Change: Engagement with Department of Health Oversight Group

5:30 pm

Mr. Hugh Kane:

We have been tasked with producing a refreshed version of A Vision for Change. Within that, the route we have taken is that we think that a future policy should really be outcomes-based. Internationally, there is strong evidence that this is a good way of bringing about fairly fundamental reform and change in services, particularly in terms of the people who access services. In terms of our particular piece of work, we are building a framework for the new policy that will look at things like the vision we are trying to achieve and the values that should underpin that. We are trying to identify the key domains and areas under which we would group the particular pieces of work. Underneath that, we are trying to identify the key actions that need to be taken to deliver that. We are looking for enablers. This involves multiple stakeholders. It is across Government and many different stakeholders. One advantage of using a framework like this is that once there is agreement on the outcomes we want to achieve, we are able to approach other colleagues and stakeholders to see what actions they need to take to deliver on the outcome that has been agreed at policy level so there is-----

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