St Pancras Redevelopment

Camden Patient and Public Engagement Group

meeting

Monday 6 November 2018

The best care for local people

The best research for the world

Today we would like to:

• Explain what changes we are trying to make in mental

health services

• Talk about the changes we are proposing to our services

and why

• Share plans for a formal public consultation

• Ask for your feedback and ideas

What we want to do

• Provide best in class, therapeutic mental health facilities across

Camden and Islington

• Move more of our services into the community, including creation of

vibrant and welcoming community hubs

• Build best in class, clinically proven, warm and welcoming inpatient

facilities

• With UCL create world-class research facilities to help us deliver

the very best care

St Pancras Now

Challenges at St Pancras

The Future

How we propose to do this

• Sell or lease most of the land on the St Pancras site to

another NHS organisation, and for housing, giving us

money to:

• Build a new state-of-the-art inpatient facility next to our

current Highgate centre.

• Build new community mental health hubs, including

one in Camden and another in Islington

• Build a new building on the St Pancras site for

community services and research

Benefits of proposed model

• Modern healthcare in new, warm and welcoming environments

• Community hubs will provide access to more services under

one roof

• Patients’ physical health needs can also be met as the new

inpatient facility will be located next to the Whittington Hospital

• Inpatients will be treated in a new therapeutic environment

• Change of locations will mean a shorter journey for a higher

percentage of patients, with easy rail and bus access

• We would keep a small part of the St Pancras site to bring our

research staff and facilities together, enabling them to work

together more effectively to turn world-class research into

tailored treatment plans

Where we are now

• We have already consulted widely.

• In January we plan to support our commissioners in a

formal consultation on our proposal that will last until April

• It will involve public meetings

• Involvement of Healthwatch in reaching ‘hard to reach

groups’

• A series of survey questions

Survey Questions

• Do you support the move of inpatient beds from the St Pancras

Hospital site to a state-of-the-art, purpose-built facility next to the

Whittington Hospital which is based opposite the Highgate Mental

Health Centre?

• Do you support the development of two new mental health community

hubs, including one in Camden and another in Islington, co-locating

some services currently offered across various locations?

• Do you support physical health and mental health services being

located together in these hubs to enable us to meet more of the care

and treatment needs of our patients at the same location?

Survey Questions

• Service users and staff have told us that they would like other non-

health related services as part of the hubs. For example; debt and

employment advice and training. Do you support the idea of services

which would be of benefit to our patients, but are provided by other

organisations, being located within the community mental health

hubs?

• If you support services from other organisations being offered space

within the community mental health hubs, please tell us what services

you feel would be of benefit to you and other patients and carers.

Thoughts and Questions