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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