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Health and Wellbeing Strategy Aim 3 - All Rotherham people enjoy the best possible mental health and wellbeing and have a good quality of life
Meeting: 16/11/2016 - Health and Wellbeing Board (Item 39)
Health and Wellbeing Strategy Aim 3 - All Rotherham people enjoy the best possible mental health and wellbeing and have a good quality of life
Presentation by Kathryn Singh, RDaSH
Minutes:
Kathryn Singh, RDaSH, and Ian Atkinson, Rotherham CCG, gave the following powerpoint presentation:-
Aim 3: All Rotherham people enjoy the best possible mental health and wellbeing and have a good quality of life
We will
- Improve support for people with enduring mental health needs, including Dementia, to help them live healthier lives
- Reduce the occurrence of common mental health problems
- Reduce social isolation
Joint Strategic Needs Assessment – Mental Health
- 1 in every 4 people in the United Kingdom suffer a mental health problem in the course of a year
- People with serious mental health problems have their lives shortened by 14-18 years on average
- Mental health problems are often found co-existing with physical health problems such as Diabetes and circulatory problems
- Quality of life has a major influence over the development of mental health problems
- Healthy living can help to protect against mental health problems. It is associated with significant economic impacts to the individual and wider society
- Dealing with mental illness is one of the major areas of expenditure for the NHS
Joint Strategic Needs Assessment – Focus on Dementia
- The estimated national diagnosis rate for Dementia as at April 2016 was 66.4% - Yorkshire and Humber it is 69.8%
- The Dementia diagnosis rate in Rotherham (2016) is estimated to be 73.3% which is higher than the regional or national average with Rotherham rated 8th highest in the region and 51st highest in England (out of 209 CCGs) for diagnostic rates
- An estimated 3,239 people aged 65+ in Rotherham were predicted to have Dementia in 2015 of whom 64% are women. 2,260 people aged 65+ have been diagnosed with Dementia in Rotherham in April 2016
- 42% of people aged 65+ with Dementia over 85 years and the condition affects 24% of all people aged 85+ in Rotherham
Mental Health and Wellbeing Workshop – February 2016 (25 attendees)
- Priorities workplace health and wellbeing
- Improving resilience in the community
- Making Every Contact Count
- Introduce Mental Health Impact Assessments
What has changed over the last 12 months
- Prevention
· Partners now signed up to Making Every Contact Count
· Range of healthy workforce initiatives e.g. Mindfulness Mental Health First Aid, CCG, RDaSH Healthy Workforce, TRFT incentive through CQUIN
· Continue to deliver Suicide Prevention Strategy
· Currently developing the Public Mental Health Strategy – led by RMBC
- Service Improvements
· Introduction of Dementia diagnosis in Primary Care – July 2016
· Social Prescribing model rolled out to Mental Health – great success
· Enhanced Mental Health liaison in the hospital setting
· Continued focus on improving access to psychological therapies
· Align Service provision to focus on physical and mental health e.g. locality working and Woodlands (inpatient)
· Significant investment in Rotherham CAMHS - £620,000
· Locality working – mental health colleagues working alongside other parents crosscutting work e.g. Diabetes care/respiratory
· Starting to harness new ways of working with voluntary sector through Social Prescribing to tackle isolation
· Reconfiguration of RDaSH Mental ... view the full minutes text for item 39