North London NHS Forensic Collaborative

North London Forensic Collaborative (NLFC) is the largest specialist mental health collaborative in England covering a population of six million people across 19 local authorities.

Since its inception in 2020, NLFC has delivered a programme of work aimed at achieving the national targets set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, with a specific focus on reducing the number of inpatient beds and creating specialist community services.

In this new deep dive case study, we explore:

• How patient involvement is central to how NLFC delivers its commissioning responsibilities.
• The impact of the NLFC lived experience model and peer engagement worker team.
• The role that co-design and the involvement of service users has had on the collaborative.