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Population Mental HealthElected Members and Officers working together: Hertfordshire’s story
Prof Jim McManus,
Director of Public Health, Hertfordshire County Council
October 11th 2016
National Mental Health Elected Member Seminar
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Why?
• Economic Issue
• Population Health Issue
• Employers’ Obligations
• Employee Engagement
• Preventive Agenda
• Skills Agenda
• Productivity and Employee relations – the Psychological Contract
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Elected Member Leadership
• Crucial – Teresa Heritage, Championed
• Officer Team – Piers Simey, Consultant
• You can do some things without money
• Our four year story
1. Laying the Foundations
2. Moving on specific Projects
3. Year of Mental Health
4. Moving now towards whole system
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1. Laying the Foundations (2013-2015)
• Needs Assessment / JSNA
• Audits
• Priority areas of work established
– Children
– Self harm
– Adults
– workplace
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2. Progress on Foundations (2014-2016)• Needs Assessment / JSNA
• Audits
• Priority areas of work
– Children – CAMHS Review and £2m, 35 projects (PH Led)
– Self harm – among 35 projects (PH led)
– Adults – new strategy (Commissioner led)
– Workplace – 1,000 champions (PH Led)
– Suicide Prevention Plan – PH Led
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Some of what Public Health Achieved
• 1,000 Mental Health Champions
• Workstreams for Childrens
• Mental Health First Aid training to front line professionals who work with young people.
• comprehensive mental health needs assessment through UCL partners,
• Suicide prevention plan
• Working on Crisis Care Concordat
• Articulated the whole system work
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District Councils
• Over 127 different projects run by ten district councils with county council public health funding
• Over 30 mental health projects
• St Albans – social prescribing pilot with GPs for mental health
• Every district has at least one MH project
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Herts Public Health Employers’ Offer
• Free training and services to Herts Employers
• 1000 MH Champions in workplaces trainedContinues till 2017
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3. The Year of Mental Health
• The Hertfordshire Health & Wellbeing Board declared the period between its annual conferences July 2015 and July 2016 the Hertfordshire Year of Mental Health.
• A countrywide initiative intended to:
– Tackle mental health stigma and discrimination– Help people get better access to treatment and care– Gain parity of access to treatment for both mental and physical
health
• Hertfordshire Year of Mental Health soughtto inspire and motivate people from across the county to take a few simple steps to help challenge mental health discrimination, and to improve the lives of those of us with mental health problems.
• Everyone in Hertfordshire can help create a society where mental health problems are not hidden.
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The Year of Mental HealthJuly 2015-July 2016
• https://youtu.be/yuSZuBgFJ7g
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Elected Member Leadership
• 14 Member Champions• 510 Pledges to the Year of
Mental Health• Newsletter• 12 Mental Health Focused
Events• 53 new partnerships with
grassroot through to large scale Mental Health focused organisations
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Key Highlights
• Themed activities for each month with focused activity: Veteran Mental Health GP engagement, Suicide Prevention Training and Youth Mental Health Training
• Legacy of the Year of Mental Health through a Mental Health Directory and Network
• Member Champion Mental Health Bite Size Briefing
• Year of Mental Health newsletter (monthly release)
• Year of Mental Health engagement with a range of events including : ‘Feel Good February, Health and Wellbeing Board Stakeholder Events, Hertfordshire Dementia Conference, Carers in Herts Community Events.
• Dementia Film Screening of ‘Inside Out of Mind’ to 170 delegates including practitioners and community representatives.
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4. Getting to a Systems Approach...
• Report to health and wellbeing board kicking off a programme and articulating system must dos
• Find the report here Item 4
• https://cmis.hertfordshire.gov.uk/hertfordshire/Calendarofcouncilmeetings/tabid/70/ctl/ViewMeetingPublic/mid/397/Meeting/605/Committee/13/SelectedTab/Documents/Default.aspx
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Heroes....2015 and 2016
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Mental Health Member Champion Training
17 member champions attended mental health training at Hertfordshire County Hall on the 9th May.
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Dementia Film Screening ‘Inside Out of Mind’
Collaborative working between HCC, The University of Hertfordshire, practitioners and our community.
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• The Hertfordshire Mental Health Strategy
• Online Directory
What next?
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Themes of the Mental Health Strategy
1. Listening and responding to service users and carers
2. Early and fair access to diagnosis, treatment and support
3. Valuing mental and physical health equally
4. Preventing and responding to crisis
5. From recovery to independence
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Some Tools
• St Albans Strategic Partnership is the FIRST to pilot the Partnership “top tips” for Employers
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Thank you
• Public Health Pages
• www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/healthinherts
• JSNA
• http://jsna.hertslis.org/