The Scottish Recovery Indicator is a mental health service development tool.
This tool has been designed by the Scottish Recovery Network to help mental health services ensure that their activities are focused on supporting the recovery of the people who use their services. In doing so it highlights issues in relation to inclusion, rights, equalities and diversity.
How SRI was developed
The Scottish Recovery Indicator was initially based on a tool called the Recovery Oriented Practices Index (ROPI), which was developed by New York State Office for Mental Health. A representative group was setup to lead on the refinement and adaptation of ROPI. This led to the development of the SRI which was then tested and evaluated in a wide variety of mental health services across Scotland. Following this test phase work continued to refine and develop the SRI and the final web version was launched in May 2009.
How it works
Undertaking the SRI requires commitment and time but initial findings suggest that using the tool can lead to improvements in practice. In adhering to the principles that underlie recovery the SRI has been developed in a way which promotes ownership and responsibility.
The tool helps generate conversations within teams about recovery supporting environments and person centred approaches.
Information is gathered from five different sources:
- Assessments
- Care plans
- Service information, policies and procedures
- Interviews with service providers
- Interviews with current or previous service users
Further information about Data Collection.
Services then judge themselves against a series of nineteen indicators. These fall under the following eight headings:
- Meeting basic needs
- Personalised services and choice
- Strengths based approach
- Comprehensive service
- Service user involvement/participation
- Social inclusion and community integration
- Advance planning
- Recovery focus
Find out more about The Indicators.
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There are three steps to completing the SRI
Step 1: Planning and preparation
- Ensure information is available
- Consider who will need to be involved
- Allocate tasks
- Determine timescales
Step 2: Collecting data
- Look for evidence in sampled assessment forms
- Look for evidence in sampled care plans
- Look for evidence in service information
- Interview service provider group
- Interview service user group
- Discuss strengths and issues raised
Step 3: Service development plan
- Consider indicator ratings
- Prioritise highlighted issues
- Determine timescales
- Allocate tasks
- What support might be needed
What you will need to use the SRI
To complete the SRI you will need:
- Agreement and commitment from your colleagues. To successfully use the tool you should have commitment from as many members of the team as possible.
- Access to, and permission to view, service user assessments and care plans as well as service information, policies and procedures.
- The capacity to arrange interviews with people providing services
- The capacity to arrange interviews with current or previous service users.
- At least 13 hours.
The policy background
The Scottish Recovery Indicator was developed as a result of two Scottish mental health policy initiatives. Initially the Review of Mental Health Nursing in Scotland called for the creation of a tool to help nurses assess their practice. Later this commitment was adopted within Delivering for Mental Health which ensured that it had relevance beyond nursing services.
To use the Scottish Recovery Indicator you will need to create a user account. |
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