3 Mental Health and Wellbeing
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A system presentation on Community Mental
Health Transformation and the Mental Wellbeing & Resilience
Fund – Emily van de Venter and Richard Onyon
Additional documents:
Minutes:
The Board received a combined presentation
from Eleanor Cappell of Coventry and Warwickshire CCG and Paula
Mawson of Warwickshire County Council.
The presentation focussed initially on the
Community Mental Health Transformation, with slides covering:
- Substantial funding being made
available to transform and modernise Community Mental Health
Services
- The aim was to deliver the NHS Long
Term Plan (LTP) ambitions for new models of integrated primary and
community care
- A new community-based offer
- The new model was being co-produced
and developed to underpin a bid for transformational funding
- The consultation undertaken since
November 2020 with a range of stakeholders
- Building on transformation across
local pathways
- Graphics showing the design
principles and vision for the future
- The additional funding for
investment into local community mental health
- Key focus of the proposals,
including the core offer and focussed pathways
- The co-production strategy, working
with the organisations Grapevine and Rethink
- The project plan for the first four
months
- Other work areas
- Governance structure,
- Evaluation arrangements
- Looking forward to the future and a
statement from a lived experience representative, Claire
Handy.
The second strand to the presentation focussed
on the Warwickshire Covid-19 mental wellbeing & resilience
fund, with slides covering:
-
Improving mental wellbeing in Warwickshire
- Funding – the overall total
value of the fund of £750,000 was open to applications for
projects which required investment under three
thresholds
- Intended outcomes and benefits
- Promotion activity resulting in
134 expressions of interest and 67 applications being
submitted
- The wellbeing for life vision and
aims
- A summary of activity to date
- Warwickshire creative health
programmes
Board members submitted the following
questions and observations with responses provided as
indicated:
- Councillor Humphreys praised this
initiative, speaking of the benefit in tailoring services to meet
the needs of clients. She asked about entry to the service. This
could be via general practice with mental health practitioner
support, via CWPT or via the mental health access hub.
- Information was sought about waiting
lists and it was hoped this additional funding would meet service
demand. Through a locality pathway approach, waiting lists to
secondary mental health care had been reduced. Integration of data
flows was seen as a key aspect. A need for transparency as waiting
lists would vary for different therapies.
- Councillor Gutteridge sought data on
the liaison worker activity for the Nuneaton and Bedworth area. It
was agreed to provide tailored information.
- Councillor Roodhouse commented on
the vision, the reliance on partnership working and the need to
involve elected members at all levels. He saw a role for members as
local champions. The document referenced eating disorders. People
may have a number of complex issues, which shouldn’t be
pigeonholed. He referred to co-production and expressing this in a
diagram should show many links. Eleanor Cappell welcomed the
suggestion of members being local champions. The pathway approach
sought to take a holistic view of each patient and their
families’ needs.
- Councillor Matecki, sought a view
about Covid vaccination being compulsory for key workers. He then
spoke of the need to listen to residents, ...
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