Stakeholder event 1st December 2014 Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre – South Gloucestershire- Mental Health

Health Needs Assessment

Notes

Prevalence of Mental Health Issues in South Gloucestershire

Input of Service Users and Providers

A first for South Gloucestershire

Develop a Stakeholder Group

Reports to South Gloucestershire Mental Health Partnership and Health and Wellbeing Board

Needs assessment executive summary – Your views and ideas

Volunteers for Strategy development

South Gloucestershire Adult Mental Health and Wellbeing Needs Assessment

Dr Kyla Thomas NIHR – Lecturer and Researcher - http://www.nihr.ac.uk/research/ - National Institute for Health Research –

Key findings and areas of improvement – Foresight report 2008 – Definitions of mental health

National

No Health Without Mental Health 2011

Preventing suicide – Closing the Gap – Public Mental Health Priorities

Local

Priority Neighbourhoods, Unemployed, Prisoners, LGBT, Gypsy/Travellers, Substance Misuse, Smokers, People with Long Term Conditions, Students – College and University.

Prevalence will increase until 2020

Increase in Depression

Increase in Hospital admissions

Increase in Male suicides

Female suicides constant

IAPT - Improving Access to Psychological Therapies – lower than average referrals for depression.

NHS AWP Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust increase in caseload

Survey with Care Forum – Raised problems with consistency and continuity of care, issues with talking therapies, difficult to access services.

Things that came up –

Service user lived experience

Mentored Peer Support

Assistance with navigating of website

Consistency of care

Improvement of community support

Knowledge of mental health and dementia from all services, not just health services

Joined up services

Being creative about service design

Long term, short term interventions

User volunteers but don’t be over-reliant

Tackling stigma – training for employers, understanding mental health

Learning from what’s been successful in dementia promotion – apply to mental health – In my opinion learning from Time to Change also

Working together service providers and service users, BME (Black and Ethnic Minority, learning difficulties

As Healthwatch rep I mentioned CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) transition, negative feedback about transition, DWP problems, housing.

Aspiration to get strategy ready for 2015