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Goodbye from Lizzie and Amanda

Amanda and Lizzie have been working together to support the ReQoL Community of Practice since the ‘ReQoL in Practice Event: Building a Community of Practice’ in November 2018. Since then, there have been some significant developments in terms of ReQoL implementation:

·         We published a research paper about the CoP (1)

·         We hosted a Community of Practice event about how ReQoL can support recovery-focused services

·         We developed an online ReQoL-10 visualisation tool  https://reqol-visualisation-tool.group.shef.ac.uk/ 

·         ReQoL was named as one of the three specific PROMs for use in Community Mental Services.

ReQoL has become increasingly embedded in NHS mental health services, and implementation guidance for the use of ReQoL-10, DIALOG and GBO in community mental health services has now been published (2). So, with great sadness, Amanda and Lizzie have decided that this is a good time to step aside from the CoP.

Going forward the CoP site will be supported by the core ReQoL team, who can be contacted via the ReQoL inbox (reqol@sheffield.ac.uk).

Thank you so much for all your support over the past five years.

Lizzie and Amanda

1.   Taylor Buck, E., Smith, C.M., Lane, A. et al. Use of a modified World Café process to discuss and set priorities for a Community of Practice supporting implementation of ReQoL a new mental health and quality of life Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM). J Patient Rep Outcomes 4, 38 (2020).

2.   Royal College of Psychiatrists. Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) for People with Severe Mental Illness in Community Mental Health Settings Implementation guidance. https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/improving-care/proms-in-cmh/proms-for-people-with-smi-in-cmh-settings.-implementation-guidance.pdf?sfvrsn=c393820b_5#:~:text=PROMs%20are%20questionnaires%20completed%20by,after%20support%2C%20care%20and%20treatment.