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Can you spare 15 minutes to help us with our evaluation?

Are you currently involved as a service user or carer in a representative or advisory role within Mental Health Services?

Do you feel you are making a difference?

What is it like being a part of these meetings?

MERIT are conducting an evaluation of the current picture of service user and carer involvement experience in Greater Manchester. 

The focus of this work will be looking at what it’s like to be involved in influencing services, what is working for people and what could be better. The impact people are having on the groups they are involved in and on Mental Health services generally.

The findings will help to shape the later stages of the North West Mentoring Scheme and add to the knowledge around service user involvement generally.

The early findings are providing some valuable information which we will make available by the end of August 2008

Evaluation Questions

 

under 25
25 - 35
36 - 45
46 - 55
56 - 65
0ver 65
 
Male
Female
 
 
Currently using services
last six months
last 12 months
more than twelve months ago
 
Every week
Every 2 weeks
Every Month
Every three months
Less often
More than 5 hrs per week
Between 2 and 5 hours per week
Less than 2 hours per week
 
I wanted to make a difference to services
I wanted to make my experiences count
A worker suggested involvement to me
Service user / carer suggested involvement to me
I wanted something to do
I thought it would be good for my recovery
Other, please state
 
Myself
A specific user / carer group
All service users and carers generally
Strongly agree
Agree
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
 
Strongly agree
Agree
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
 
 
Yes
No
Sometimes
 
Strongly agree
Agree
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
 
 
 

Users / carers views being heard

Better more appropriate services
Challenge professional views
Equality and respect for service user experience
Boxes can be ticked
No real gain to services

 

Yes

No

Not sure

 

 

Yes

No

Sometimes

 

 

 

Yes

No

Not sure
 

Thank you for completing this form. If there is more feedback you would like to add about your involvement you can email Liz Fletcher at: merit@bluesci.org.uk