About Reach Out
The introduction of the NHS-Led Provider Collaboratives created a new approach to commissioning specialised mental health, learning disability and autism services.
Under this arrangement NHS Trusts and Independent Sector Providers work in partnership to improve care for individuals with specialist mental health, learning disability and autism needs. By sharing resources and expertise they ensure that service users experience high quality, specialist care, as close to home as appropriately possible, maintaining connections with local teams and support networks.
If you would like to find out more about how we work together, this film by NHS England is a useful introduction.
Reach Out is the Adult Secure Care Provider Collaborative for the West Midlands. Our mission is to deliver the highest quality of care we can for our patients, support their carers and families, and recruit and develop the best staff.
We are responsible for low and medium secure mental health care, for people with mental health needs, learning disabilities and/ or autistic people.
The Collaborative consists of the following organisations: Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Midlands Partnership Foundation NHS Foundation Trust, St Andrews Healthcare, and Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust. The Provider Collaborative also covers the geographical area that includes the following Integrated Care Boards – Black Country, Birmingham and Solihull, Coventry and Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.
The Collaborative
Hatherton, Ellesmere House, Clee, MPFT FIRST
Brooklands secure inpatient services, FASTER
Reaside, Tamarind, Hillis Lodge, Ardenleigh, BSMHFT FIRST, STAH FIRST
Birmingham Hospital
Our Services
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Site
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Partner
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Service Type
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Host ICB
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Tamarind
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BSMHFT
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Secure Mental Health (MSU Male MI)
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Birmingham and Solihull ICB
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Reaside
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BSMHFT
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Secure Mental Health (MSU Male MI)
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Birmingham and Solihull ICB
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Ardenleigh
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BSMHFT
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Secure Mental Health (Blended Female MI)
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Birmingham and Solihull ICB
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Hillis Lodge
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BSMHFT
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Secure Mental Health (LSU Male)
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Birmingham and Solihull ICB
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St.Andrews Birmingham
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STAH
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Secure Mental Health (MSU and LSU Male MI, LSU Female MI)
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Birmingham and Solihull ICB
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Hatherton
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MPFT
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Secure Mental Health (MSU Male MI)
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Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB
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Clee
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MPFT
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Secure Mental Health (LSU Male MI)
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Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin ICB
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Brooklands
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CWPT
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Secure Learning Disability and Autism (LSU and MSU Male LD, LSU Male Austim, LSU Female LD)
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Coventry and Warwickshire ICB
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Ellesmere
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MPFT
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Secure Learning Disability (LSU Male LD)
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Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB
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BSMHFT FIRST
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BSMHFT
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Forensic Community Team MI
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Birmingham and Solihull ICB
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STAH FIRST
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BSMHFT
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Forensic Community Team MI
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Birmingham and Solihull ICB
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FASTER
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CWPT & MPFT
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Forensic Community Team LDA
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Coventry and Warwickshire ICB
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The Lead Provider for Reach Out is Birmingham and Solihull NHS Foundation Trust, supported by a commissioning hub that is responsible for quality and safety oversight, co-production, and case management, strategy, planning and commissioning, contracting and financial planning and management functions. To learn more about these core functions click on the tabs below.
Reach Out adopts the following key prionciples to achieve its vison and strategic objectives through the effective utilisation of its core functions.
- Make decisions and act in a way that is Best for the Service User and do so in a timely manner and respond accordingly to requests for support promptly.
- Act in the spirit of partnership in making decisions, evidencing their performance, workforce planning and strategy, finance and governance on a transparent basis, as necessary, subject at all times to compliance with applicable competition and procurement law,
- Seek to ensure the sustainability of the Services through collective and integrated working together,
- Communicate openly and share any major concerns (including those which impact on Partners’ reputations), issues or opportunities relating to the Provider Collaborative through the governance structure,
- Work with Third Party Partners and other stakeholders effectively, following generally recognised principles of co-design and co-production; and
- Act reasonably and in good faith to each other to support the delivery of the Variation and Management Agreements, the achievement of the Objectives, and compliance with these Collaborative Principles.
In 2017 the NHS decided to find a better way to work together in specialist mental health in-patient services. These are called Provider Collaboratives. This included specialist in-patient services for people with learning disabilities and/ or autistic people. Secure in-patient services – also called Forensic in-patient services – are part of the Provider Collaborative.
Reach Out is the Provider Collaborative for Secure Care in the West Midlands.
- We work together to make things better and more person-centred.
- We work together to make sure that services are safe and good quality.
- We work together to make sure we spend the money (commissioning) well.
- We work together to make sure that people receive the right care and treatment to recover and move back to the community at the right time for them.
- We work together to make sure that the voices of patients and their families (or people important to them) are included in everything. This is called co-production.
In Reach Out there are a number of different ways that we do this. We call these our ‘functions’.
Our functions include:
- Commissioning
- Case Management
- Quality, Patient Safety and Patient Experience
- Co-production
You can click on the links on the main web-page to find out more about our functions and what they do.
