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Agenda item

Good Mental Health and Wellbeing Plan

Minutes:

Liz Altay presented details regarding the Prevention Concordat for Better Mental Health. Good Mental Health and Wellbeing was one of the three priorities of the Health and Well-being Board’s Strategy and progress on the plan was reported to the Health Improvement Group and through that to the Health and Well-being Board.

 

There were 5 objectives within the Good Mental Health and Wellbeing Action Plan:

       i.          Increasing Mental health literacy

      ii.          Promoting self-care and community assets

    iii.          Improving access to local support

    iv.          Having dementia friendly environments

     v.          Ensuring services embed early intervention and prevention

 

These points go a good way toward meeting the action plan within the prevention concordat.

 

The Health and Well-being Board had sponsored a Time to Change Hub which was a partnership of local organisations committed to ending mental health stigma and discrimination. £15,000 funding had been received to co-ordinate the Hub as well as £10,000 for a Champion’s fund. Time to Change want an Employers pledge to be signed by August 2019.

 

There were different workstreams around the Hub which covered the workplace, young people and recruiting and promoting mental health champions. Worcestershire have over 100 Champions signed up.

 

The prevention concordat required that Worcestershire had a suicide prevention plan, a Mental Health Champion on the Health and well-being Board, and a refreshed JSNA.

 

The slides showed that:

·       The numbers of young people being admitted to hospital as a result of self-harm had decreased and was now lower than the England average

·       The numbers self-reporting that they have high satisfaction had increased to slightly above the England average

·       The number of people with depression and anxiety had increased to be the same as the England figure

·       The percentage of adults in employment with contact with secondary mental health services was also the same as the England figure of 68%

·       Health related quality of life for older people was higher in Worcestershire than the rest of England.

·       It was clarified that there had been investment within CAMHS to provide additional capacity to help meet demand.

 

Anthony Kelly volunteered to be the Board Champion for Mental Health. Frances Howie confirmed that this was an important piece of work and recommended that Member Organisations signed the pledge. It was confirmed that £25,000 funding for the Time to Change Hub would be provided for a further three year period.

 

RESOLVED that the Health and Well-being Board:

 

a)     Noted the progress made on the Good Mental Health and       Wellbeing Plan;

b)    Agreed to commit and sign up to a shared Prevention Concordat       for Better Mental Health;

c)     Agreed that Anthony Kelly would become the Health and Well-      being Board mental health champion as required for declaring a       Prevention Concordat arrangement;

d)    Supported a multi-agency refresh of the Mental Health and       Wellbeing Plan incorporating the prevention concordat       requirements and findings from an updated Mental Health JSNA;

e)     Noted the progress and activities of the Worcestershire Time to       Change hub sponsored by the Board and supported ongoing       sustainability of this anti-stigma activity; and

f)      Request that each Board member organisation be asked to       commit to signing the Time to Change employer's pledge by       August 2019 as agreed in October 2017 to demonstrate the       importance of embedding mental health and anti-stigma       activity within their own organisations.

 

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