We are PROSPECT – the Cheshire and Merseyside Lead Provider Collaborative for Adult Secure Care.
PROSPECT is the Cheshire and Merseyside Adult Secure Lead Provider Collaborative for specialised mental health, learning disability and autism services. It is made up of two NHS and one independent sector organisation that jointly provide these specialised services in our geographical area.
NHS England has devolved its commissioning budget and commissioning activity to Mersey Care as the Lead Provider in the collaborative. Our partner organisations are Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Elysium Health Care.
The PROSPECT board is chaired by Mersey Care’s Chief Executive, Prof Joe Rafferty CBE. It has been led from the outset by clinical experts from all partners and co-created with experts by experience. Its focus is on improvement in the delivery of and experience of care.
CEO Prof Joe Rafferty says: “PROSPECT coming to life has been a very catalytic event for us. Good, existing collaborations have become brilliant ones. Areas like safety and outcome, rather than appearing threatening to share, are being driven by learning. The experience of and access for patients has improved”.
Andy Styring, Director of Strategy and Partnerships at CWP, says: “There’s strong mutual respect across all partners: the trusts, independent sector and NHS England. We are pledged to continually learn, support the improvement of care and outcomes for people within our respective services.”
Patrick Neville, Strategic Development Director, Elysium Healthcare says: “Elysium Healthcare have supported the national NHS led Provider Collaboratives programme from the very start and are proud to be a partner in the Prospect Partnership as we are in other partnerships across the country. The benefits to service users of ensuring that all services work transparently, with mutual cooperation, to deliver high quality services matched to service user need is both good practice and demonstrably an improvement in care. The collaboration between the NHS services and ourselves in the Prospect Partnership has achieved significant improvements in access, provision and aftercare arrangements and we see the journey towards enhanced collaboration supporting services to work ever more effectively.”
