MENTAL HEALTH & WELL-BEING V1.1
Vision: Public Health Warwickshire aims to provide good information, evidence, support and resources to improve the mental health and
well-being of people living in Warwickshire, working in partnership with key strategic groups and organisations across Warwickshire.
Key
Aims
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The provision of public mental health services that provide information, support and advice
throughout the life course, for both functional and organic mental health conditions, and
which consults and involves mental health service users and carers.
Timely
interventions
Better Support
Better Information
Core Principles
To promote and improve Public Mental Health across the life course, working in
partnership with key stakeholders.
To promote and improve the mental health and well-being of children and young
people in Warwickshire.
To increase access to, and availability of, early intervention services for people with
common mental health issues
Outcome
 To increase timely diagnosis rates for dementia, and improve availability of post
diagnosis support.
 To narrow the gap in health inequalities for people living with severe mental illness.
 To champion mental health for all, working to raise the profile of mental health in
key strategic groups to achieve parity of esteem with physical health issues.
Action
Development of a Public Mental
Health Strategy and
Implementation Plan for
Warwickshire that champions
mental health for everyone.
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Improved information and
awareness of mental health and
dementia in the general public.
 Development and promotion of Ways to Well-being Campaign
 Development and Promotion of a Living Well with Dementia web-portal
 Local promotion of the National Time to Change anti-discrimination campaign
Improved ability of front-line
workers to identify and sign-post
people to appropriate support for
mental health and dementia.
Improved range of information,
advice, advocacy and early
intervention services for mental
health.
Improved mental health and wellbeing outcomes for children and
young people.
 Development of resources to enable GPs, Practice Nurses and other front-line
workers in Warwickshire to sign-post and refer people to services.
 Contribute to the development of a single point of entry for public health services.
 Contribute to the promotion and delivery of MECC.
 To commission and / or develop in partnership a range of services to promote mental
health and well-being.
 To develop a plan for reducing the impact of social isolation and loneliness.
Strategy document produced and consultation process completed.
Meaningful measures to monitor progress developed and agreed.
Evidence of effective interventions for public mental health reviewed.
Strategy Implementation plan with key partners agreed.
Service User and Carer Involvement as a key principle.
Improvement in physical health
inequalities for people living with
severe mental health illness.
 To contribute to partnership work to improve mental health outcomes for early years,
children and young people.
 To commission the Mental Health Service for Young Offenders working in partnership
with the Youth Justice Service.
 To review the physical health needs of people living with severe mental illness in
Warwickshire with a particular focus on: specialist support for smoking cessation and
improved promotion of physical health across primary and secondary care.
Increase in Dementia Friendly
Communities.
Promotion of timely diagnosis of
Dementia.
 To support the development of Dementia Friendly Communities in Warwickshire, as
part of the Living Well with Dementia Partnership.
 To work with CCGs and GPs to promote timely diagnosis of Dementia.
 To develop the Health Checks Programme to include Dementia.
Improved access to, and
availability of, post diagnosis
Dementia support services.
 To continue to develop a range of resources and support for people following a
diagnosis of Dementia.
 To work with the Clinical Reference Group to review the prescribing of anti-psychotic
medicine to ensure that best practice is being adopted locally.
Measure
Target
 Public Mental Health Strategy for Warwickshire available on the Public Health
Warwickshire web-site.
 Strategic Implementation Plan and programme / partnership working
arrangements agreed with information available on the Public Health
Warwickshire web-site.
 Evidence of Service User and Carer consultation and involvement.
 Uptake and evaluation of information campaign resources
 PH Outcomes Framework - Self-reported well-being
 PH Outcomes Framework - Suicide rate
 PH Outcomes Framework – Dementia Diagnosis rate
 Improved sign-posting and referral from front-line workers to services
 Single point of entry for public mental health services available.
 MECC interventions for mental health.
Strategy In
place
 Monitoring uptake and quality of service provision for commissioned and
developed services.
 New initiatives for addressing social isolation and loneliness in place.
 PH Outcomes Framework - Self-reported well-being, Suicide Rate, Employment
 Local target TBA
 PH Outcomes Framework - Numbers of children admitted with deliberate injuries
 PH Outcomes Framework - Emotional well-being of looked after children -
Increase
 Number of smoking cessation quit attempts.
 Number of people attending annual GP health-check
 PH Outcomes Framework - Under 75 mortality rate for people with severe mental
illness
 Number of services becoming Dementia Friendly with a particular focus on
pharmacies, libraries, fire service and CSW Sport.
 PH Outcomes Framework - Diagnosis rates for Dementia
 PH Outcomes Framework - Numbers of Health Checks delivered within Primary
Care that include Dementia
 Use of Living Well with Dementia web-portal
 Use of Dementia Resources in the Books on Prescription Collection
 Uptake of the Exercise on Referral Scheme for Dementia
 Levels of prescribing of anti-psychotic medication within best practice levels.
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