Meet the DBI Programme Board & National Partners

A DBI programme board brings the Scottish Government together with a DBI central team, national lead agencies and key partners to oversee and support the effective delivery of the programme. Members of the Programme Board are listed below:

As at March 2023

• Anne McDougall, Change Mental Health Area Manager – Highland
• Kimberley Irwin, Change Mental Health DBI Level 2 Manager
• Lisa Anderson, Change Mental Health DBI Level 2 Manager
• Nick Ward, Change Mental Health Chief Executive Officer
• Haylis Smith, COSLA Suicide Prevention LeadOfficer
• Louise Keir, NHS Borders Dr, Senior Clinical Psychologist, DBI
• Laura Corfield, NHS Borders Dr, Senior Clinical Psychologist, DBI
• Phillip Grieve, NHS Borders Operational Manager, Mental Health
• Simon Burt, NHS Borders Joint Manager JLDS + General Manager MH Services, Learning Disability Service
• Duncan Clark, NHS Highland National DBI CY&P Advisor, Clinical Director, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
• Amanda McKay, NHS24 CSM, Service Delivery
• Katherine Robertson, NHS24 Senior Nurse for Mental Health
• Adam Daly, NHSL Dr, DBI Clinical Lead & Interim Associate Medical Director (North Lanarkshire HSCP)Psychiatry
• Karen Spiers, DBI Central Team, DBI National Clinical Support Co-ordinator & Lanarkshire Lead
• Kevin O’Neill, DBI Central Team, National DBI Programme Manager
• Monica Gray, DBI Central Team, DBI Project Administrator
• Paula MacLeod, NHSL Chair of DBI Programme Board & General Manager Mental Health & Learning Disabilities
• Jane Cumming, Penumbra Director of Programmes
• Rachel Middleton, Penumbra DBI Network Manager
• Allana Lewek, Police Scotland Sergeant, Mental Health & Suicide Prevention |Partnerships, Preventions and Community Wellbeing Division
• Rachel Branney, Police Scotland Police Constable, Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Partnerships, Preventions and Community Wellbeing Division
• Caroline Martin, PHS & DBI Central Team Principal Information Analyst
• Craig Colins, Public Health Scotland Programme Portfolio Manager, Public Mental Health (Sub-Dept)
• Martin McCoy, PHS & DBI Central Team Dr, DBI Deputy Programme Manager
• Alex Cumming, SAMH Assistant Director of Delivery & Development
• Angela McCann, SAMH Service Manager
• Katherine Wilson, SAMH Servcie Manager – Edinburgh and Wes Lothian
• Oxana McGregor-Gunn, SAMH Head of Employment
• Joanne McLean, ScotCen Social Research Research Director, NatCen
• Billy Ridler, Scottish Ambulance Service Dr, Dementia & Mental Health Lead
• Iona Crawford, Scottish Ambulance Service Clinical Effectiveness Lead – Mental Health
• Gavin Russell, Scottish Government Distress Interventions
• Hilary Third, Scottish Government Joint Head of Distress Interventions & Suicide Prevention Unit
• Morag Williamson, Scottish Government Head of Distress Interventions & Suicide Prevention Unit
• Alastair Cook, Scottish Government DR, Principal Medical Officer for Mental Health, in Scottish Government
• Ambrose (Jack) Melson, University of Glasgow Dr, Institute of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow
• Krystyna Loney, University of Glasgow Research Assistant, Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory
• Rory O’Connor, University of Glasgow Professor, Institute of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow
• Edward Duncan, University of Stirling Professor of Applied Health Research, Associate Dean of Research

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Meet the DBI Third Sector Providers from across Scotland & beyond

The third sector has played a crucial role in the design, implementation and delivery of DBI across Scotland. There are currently seven third sector DBI Level 2 providers leading and delivering level 2 DBI support across Scotland. The current DBI Level 2 providers are:

• Change Mental Health
• Lanarkshire Association for Mental Health
• LifeLink
• Penumbra
• Scottish Association for Mental Health and.
• The Blide Trust Orkney
• The Richmond Fellowship Scotland
• In addition, Everyturn Mental Health are the third sector provider for the first non-Scottish DBI service in Tees, Esk and Weer NHS Trust

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Meet the H&SCP where DBI is currently being delivered locally

Since the establishment of DBI in the four original DBI test sites of Aberdeen, Inverness, Lanarkshire and Scottish Borders, the establishment of local DBI Implementation Groups or Boards have been essential. These groups ensure that key stakeholders are involved and that local DBI provision is embedded and connected with, and respectful of, related and complimentary programmes. With the Scottish Government expectation to see DBI embedded at Health Board/ Health and Social Care Partnership level by March 2024, the DBI Central Team have been working with all 31 Health & Social Care Partnerships to support discussion, development and direction towards this goal. Good progress has been made with 20 Health & Social Care Partnerships already live at February 2023 and delivering DBI as listed below, with the remaining 11 at various stages of development:

Five original DBI Pilot H&SCP’s live in 2017:

• North Lanarkshire
• South Lanarkshire
• Scottish Borders
• Aberdeen City
• Inverness (Highland partially)

A further 15 Associate H&SCP’s Now live @ February 2023

• Moray
• North Ayrshire
• South Ayrshire
• East Ayrshire
• Inverclyde
• Midlothian
• Dumfries & Galloway
• Orkney
• West Dunbartonshire
• Angus
• Perth & Kinross
• Dundee City
• Edinburgh City
• Aberdeenshire
• Argyll & Bute

In addition, and although not the responsibility of the Scottish Government’s DBI programme, we have been delighted to learn and work with colleagues outside Scotland, which has seen the first non-Scottish DBI services go live in Tees, Esk and Weer NHS Trust in September 2022, with a local mental health third sector provider, Everyturn Mental Health commissioned to deliver the service.

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