HSJ Value Awards 2019: Specialist services award

Winner

Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust and partners: Project Future

A holistic wellbeing and mental health service is helping young men labelled as gang members or serious youth violence offenders in one of the most deprived areas of London.

Project Future, based in Haringey, was developed by Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust and partners, including Haringey Council.

Its approach is co-produced with the young men and uses evidence-based psychological models alongside activities, such as CV writing and cooking, to engage with this vulnerable group.

It has worked with more than 260 young men over four years. Typically they will have complex, long-term needs and be at risk of a cycle of offending.

More than 70 per cent have accessed mental health support, a similar proportion are working towards employment goals and many have accessed other services.

The cost of the project is massively less than the cost to public services of a prison sentence or dealing with crimes. The team and the young men have co-delivered training for other services and the approach is influencing schools-based interventions.

Read a detailed case study about this project at HSJ Solutions

Finalists

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals Trust: Regional Specialist Centre for Patients with TTP – HIGHLY COMMENDED
St Mark’s Hospital, London North West University Healthcare Trust: A 10-year success story in developing the UK’s high volume locally-advanced and recurrent colorectal cancer surgery service – HIGHLY COMMENDED
Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust: Stroke senior decision makers at the front door – A culture change
Cambridge IVF: Exceptional quality IVF at the lowest possible cost, enabling patients to afford treatment when funding has been cut
Central North West London Foundation Trust: Your Life Line 24/7
CONNECT: The West Yorkshire and Harrogate Adult Eating Disorders Service at Leeds and York Partnership FT: A New Care Model redesign of regional adult ED services
Hertfordshire Community Trust: Positive Behaviour, Autism, Learning Disability and Mental Health Service (PALMS)
Humber Teaching FT: Department of Psychological Medicine: Frequent Attenders Service
Imperial College London and Chelsea and Westminster FT: Improving the care and life-long health of very pre-term and sick newborn babies
University College London Hospitals Trust and Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity: Intrauterine foetal surgery for spina bifida