Examples of what this might involve:

1. 

• Use of community planning partnerships, locality planning networks and third sector interfaces to build alignment across the whole system in achieving the principles and outcomes of local protocols.
• Ongoing engagement with the distributed mental health, and substance use, leadership across the local area, including those within the Local Authority, NHS Board, Integrated Joint Board and Community Planning Partnership.
• Enhancement of the recovery-oriented system of care by linking to community wellbeing resources, third sector services (including advocacy), and social supports such as mentors, befrienders, navigators, peer support.
• Promotion of and support for recovery, social cohesion and community connections as ways of supporting resilience and wellbeing.
• Awareness raising of the wider recovery-oriented system of care amongst staff, with information on range of recovery support services.

2. 

• Ensuring relevant standards are used by all community-based mental health and substance use services to support all co-occurring conditions.
• Ensuring inclusion of mental health and substance use perspectives within the governance, improvement and redesign of other services (e.g. primary care, pharmacy, mental health transformation, urgent and elective care, physical health).
• Communications plan for sharing updates across a range of services.

3. 

• Identification of how the protocol will impact the work of others.
• Staff education on interfaces/wider system of care.
• Review of interfaces (and improvement, redesign or transformation if necessary).
• Inclusion of other stakeholders in the development of protocols and commissioning, e.g. GPs to develop Primary Care Shared Care Protocols; third sector in development of Tier 1 supports such as community health projects, Community Link Practitioners, peer recovery networkers.

4. 

Health Impact Assessment to identify how changes may affect access to mental health, substance use, or other services.