| How KPP got started |
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KPP began in 1999 in the South Island of New Zealand, when panels including service users, families and staff agreed the ten key features that would make mental health services work well for them. |
This reinforced some of the ideas that David King had been developing during a distinguished health management career in England and New Zealand. |
Since David retired, he has teamed up in New Zealand with Barry Welsh, who has a wide range of skills and experience of mental health. |
Their ideas grew into Knowing the People Planning, which they have managed jointly since its inception. |
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| The early years in New Zealand |
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KPP was piloted in three South Island localities - Westport (the first volunteer), Hokitika and Blenheim. |
The pilot led to a field trial of KPP in 2002-2003, the participant district health boards (DHBs) being: |
 Southland |
| South Canterbury |
| West Coast |
| Nelson and Marlborough |
| Whanganui |
The Hereford Centre, Christchurch was also involved. |
At a workshop in Christchurch in November 2003, the participants gave KPP a vote of confidence as a useful tool in the planning and management of their mental health services. |
These DHBs continue to use the KPP approach and the idea has spread. In 2004, Christchurch, Auckland and Hawkes Bay started to use KPP, and were soon joined by Bay of Plenty and Tairawhiti DHBs. |
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| KPP moves to the UK |
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In early 2004, David King presented the ideas behind Knowing the People Planning to several UK providers of mental health services, who wanted to try these ideas out themselves. A small grant was made by the Nuffield Trust, to help stimulate the early development of KPP in the UK. |
In September 2004, David King returned to England - a of his trip can be downloaded, as can the of the first KPP UK Seminar, hosted by the Nuffield Trust in London on 8th September and chaired by Professor Sir Denis Pereira Gray OBE. |
On 29th April 2005 the second KPP UK Seminar was held in Bristol and chaired by Tony Day, KPP lead in the UK. It heard reports from the first two UK sites to have completed a KPP pilot, in Bristol and Plymouth (see page ). of the seminar can be downloaded. |
David King made a further visit to England in April/May 2005 (see ). |
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| Who funds KPP? |
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KPP was financed initially by the then Southern Regional Health Authority in New Zealand. |
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It now receives funding from a number of sources, including the New Zealand Ministry of Health, Auckland University, the Nuffield Trust in England, and participating organisations. |
