\n Members of Cumberland Council\u2019s health overview and scrutiny committee were given an update from\u00a0Cumbria, Northumbria, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust at\u00a0Allerdale House in Workington on Thursday (July 17).\n<\/p>\n
\n Ramona Duguid, the trust\u2019s chief operating officer, told members extensive arrangements were in place at Hope Haven, in Whitehaven, and it was hoped that\u00a0the main building fully open and operational by September or October at the latest.\n<\/p>\n
\n She said that recovery and well-being drop-in sessions had been established and added that they had a \u201chuge impact on access to services\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Duguid suggested that they could bring back a progress report to the committee in six to 12 months.\n<\/p>\n
\n James Duncan, the trust\u2019s chief executive, stressed that it was not a pilot scheme and added: \u201cThis is something that will be sustained.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n The report states: \u201cBy the end of July Everyturn will be operating our Virtual Safe Haven Offer, telephone and online support.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe will also be going live with our \u2018team of the day\u2019 which consists of staff from each of the partners CNTW, Home Group, Everyturn, The Well, Cumbria Health and iCan along with peer support being available to support all new referrals and wrap around existing service users who require immediate crisis support.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe four short stay beds which will provide a robust alternative to admission will open at the beginning of August 2025. They will have 24\/7 staff support from Home Group and Intensive Home-Based Treatment from the CNTW crisis team.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe team will continue to work closely with the CNTW inpatient bed management team and also Lowther Street crisis beds to ensure the most appropriate bed is used to meet the individual needs.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n According to the report there is also a\u00a0Hope Haven on Wheels initiative which currently focusses on rural isolated areas within Copeland.\n<\/p>\n
\n The report states: \u201cThis is a 15-week rolling programme which has reached into four areas of Copeland thus far with rural community venues booked and scheduled until October.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201ciCan Wellbeing Group is working in collaboration with system partners to co-work\/co-deliver sessions, as recruited staff come into post, Everyturn and Cumbria Health have joined thus far.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of Cumberland Council\u2019s health overview and scrutiny committee were given an update from\u00a0Cumbria, Northumbria, Tyne and Wear…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-288834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114910184320726065","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}