Minutes:
Since the last meeting of the Health and Wellbeing Board in June the Mental Health Partnership and its various sub-groups of the Partnership have worked on the following:
· Overseeing the development of the new Emotional Health and Wellbeing Strategy, as already discussed.
· Started to work on developing a dashboard to monitor performance across the system. There is an ask of the health and wellbeing board to support the development of the dashboard. The purpose of the dashboard is to enable the Partnership to monitor performance across the system, hold the system to account in delivering the Strategy and enable the partnership to make intelligent, evidence-based decisions.
· Eating Disorders (ED): an all-age pathway is being explored, with training to be provided to GPs and partners, funding for which has been secured until March and training is ready to commence.
· Other work is ongoing in terms of MH Transformation and several groups have been established to progress key areas including crisis care, rehab and recovery, eating disorders (as above) and personality disorder. These areas will be the priorities for the Mental Health Partnership going forwards.
· Prevention for Better Mental Health fund – we’ve received £328,204 funding (plus an additional £20,700 for admin and evaluation) to fund a range of prevention projects including to expand the current Umbrella service, a miniature woods and forestry network which aims to connect people with nature, Peer relationships service and promoting better mental health through sports clubs. We know these opportunities lead to the improvement in the wider determinants of Mental Health and Wellbeing.
· The Delivery Group meets monthly, has strong representation from a range of services. The Mental Health Forum represent service users but we’re currently exploring how we can have greater representation from service users and carers.
· Latest suicide profiles published online covering data from 2018 – 2020. Barnsley’s overall rate has risen to the highest rate since data collection began 20 years ago. It’s a stark reminder that we need to do more as a system to prevent suicide in Barnsley. However, we have recently secured £60k funding to enable real time surveillance for cases of attempted suicide – this should help to prevent suicide, as we know a large proportion of suicides have had a previous attempt and are already known to the health and care system
· Established section 136 task and finish group and working with Yorkshire Ambulance Service to establish an emergency mental health vehicle for Barnsley.
A discussion took place regarding eating disorders. This is a target area for the Partnership and is one of the task and finish groups. More information can be brought to the next Board meeting.
RESOLVED that the update be noted.