The King’s Fund has been working with Kaleidoscope Health and Care and the Centre for Mental Health to deliver a series of learning events across England, as part of the Prevention concordat for better mental health programme led by Public Health England. Here, Chris Naylor shares key lessons from a recent event in Liverpool.
Hosted by GP surgery but including other MH/community groups such as local Carers' Centre, Fire Service, local MH Trust, police, Recovery College and Rethink for Carers.
Public Health England (PHE) has today (30 August 2017) launched a ground breaking new tool for local public health teams identifying the most cost effective mental health programmes. One of these 8 initiatives is an innovative resilience programme in schools that results in an estimated saving of £5.08 for every £1 invested (over 3 years).
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), in partnership with a variety of other local organisations, will be touring the area between Monday 17 and Saturday 22 July to promote wellbeing and reduce stigma around mental illness.
The ‘Mental Wellbeing Roadshow’ will visit two towns and villages each day to give Trust staff and partner organisations the chance to connect with rural communities and listen to people’s views.
The tour will focus on prevention and reaching people at an early stage so that they can be signposted to the right place for help. It will also give people the chance to find out more about local sources of support as well as Improving Services Together, NSFT’s strategy for service user and carer involvement which aims to place service users and carers at the heart of decision making.
Humber NHS Foundation Trust has blazed a trail by giving mindfulness and t’ai chi classes to firefighters.
The Trust-run Humber Recovery College has been teaching staff from Humberside Fire and Rescue Service to improve their mental health.
... new approach to supporting mental health wellbeing with Problem Solving Booths where strangers can discuss issues with each other.
The informal booths, set up in public areas, aim to get people to be more open about mental health by talking through problems with someone who has a completely unbiased perspective.
This quality standard covers community engagement approaches to improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities, and initiatives to change behaviours that harm people’s health. This includes building on the strengths and capabilities of communities, helping them to identify their needs and working with them to design and deliver initiatives and improve equity.
The vanguard’s community and personal resilience workstream is focused on working with communities to promote self-care through education and a greater availability of health information, and on training staff to talk to people in a different way and involve them in making decisions about their own health and care.
Its aim is to reduce people’s dependency on health and social care by motivating them to have greater ownership, control and understanding of their own health and wellbeing, and by creating strong support networks within local communities.
Dudley Vanguard has introduced Integrated Plus workers.
Integrated Plus workers work alongside health and care professionals to take referrals for people in need of help.
They work with individuals to understand their needs and link them back into their community.
Their work is tackling the social isolation experienced by so many.
Wakefield Council has chosen Nova Wakefield District Limited and South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s joint bid to deliver a new social wellbeing service in the district.
Nova and the Trust will work in partnership to deliver this innovative service to support local people self-manage their health and wellbeing.
Sue Moore, Chief Operating Officer at Lancashire Care NHS foundation Trust said:
“We are absolutely delighted to be working with the Wildlife Trust to support vulnerable young people in Lancashire to participate in outdoor activities that can improve their mental health and physical wellbeing. Not only will the project enable young people to contribute towards their local environment but it will enable them to develop new skills, grow in self-confidence and connect with their local communities. On behalf of the whole organisation we’re really excited to see the project develop and look forward to it formally launching.”
Health professionals from Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust are urging people living in Derby to put their mental health first by attending the free information session which promises to provide a wealth of handy tips and advice on how to improve your general emotional wellbeing and stay well.
The ‘Combatting stress, anxiety and depression’ Q&A session will take place on Tuesday 6 September, from 6.00pm – 7.30pm at Derby West Indian Community Association, Carrington Street, Derby DE1 2ND. Refreshments will be provided and free parking is available.
A team of mental health experts from the Trust will be on hand to offer professional advice to anyone who may have questions on how to cope with stress, anxiety and depression, or to have a discussion with people who just wish to understand their mental health diagnosis and/or treatment in more depth. The panel of experts will include a Chief Nurse, Consultant Psychiatrist and Pharmacist.
This document is about creating person-centred, community-focussed approaches to health, wellbeing and care. It builds on the proposed new relationship with patients and communities set out in the NHS Five Year Forward View.
This document is not a checklist or official guidance. It aims to complement a wider suite of products to be produced by national bodies for the health and care system as it moves forward with the implementation of innovations in care delivery. It will be received by people working at full tilt in a system under great pressure. We hope that in this document you will find inspiration, reassurance and practical support.
The Reality Check Festival is coming this summer giving anyone the chance to enjoy a fantastic festival atmosphere and learn more about mental health and wellbeing.
The event has been organised by our Early Intervention (EI) teams and will feature live music and inspirational talks from service users as well as helpful information stalls about local mental health services.
Two £25 vouchers are up for grabs in the library’s ‘Making the Most of Information’ survey.
To take part, just visit http://goo.gl/AdN4ok by Friday 19th February.
A new mental health awareness scenario has been added to the courses on offer at SkillZONE, Gloucestershire’s safety education centre.
This week is Children’s Mental Health Week, so 2gether NHS Foundation Trust and SkillZONE are pleased to be able to launch this module for young people across Gloucestershire, to raise awareness of positive mental health and wellbeing.
SkillZONE, in Tuffley Lane, Gloucester, is a state-of-the-art life-size village, which provides a fully interactive learning environment to teach people of all ages how to recognise dangerous situations and stay safe.
Kathryn Charlesworth, a social inclusion development worker with 2gether, has been involved in putting the new scenario together. She explained: “We’d been involved in incorporating mental health awareness into a similar project in Hereford and wanted to make it Trust-wide by including it at SkillZONE.
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