The ‘Mind Our Rights Education Programme’, referred to as the MORE- P team, sits with the Royal Edinburgh Hospital Patients Council (SCIO).
The MORE-P project has been run by the patients council since 2022.
The Patients Council is an independent collective advocacy project for people who use or have used the services of the hospital and is the lead partner and responsible for the management of the MORE-P project and staff.
The MORE- P team consists of four educators and an organizer. Simon Porter of the Patients Council manages the team who bring a wealth of experiences, competencies and talents to the project with backgrounds in legal professions, community education, social care, mental health services, project management, training, nursing, lecturing, art and many more.
Like the Patients Council, what is unique about the team is their ‘lived experiences’ of mental health provision.
The funding for the project was initially for two years whereupon it was extended by a further three years in total.
What do we do? – We develop and facilitate Human Rights Workshops and presentations within Mental Health Service Provision in Edinburgh.