Introducing our mental health strategy By Sharon McNally, chief nurse and deputy chief executive There is no health without mental health. That is the key focus of our five-year mental health strategy. I am proud of our commitment to making a difference to the way in which we support the mental health needs of our patients and their loved ones.
The plans within the strategy y Ensure that our reflect what matters most to environments are quiet, people who use our services, clean, safe, and fit for the people who care for them, purpose to reassure our our organisation’s partners and patients with mental health community providers. needs The strategy was approved by y Enable our mental health the Board in January 2023. To deliver our strategy, our partners to access our I welcome the introduction focus is to: electronic documents and to of this strategy, which marks y Improve the quality of ensure we have a joined-up an important milestone in our care that we deliver to our approach to the care of our work towards transforming our patients who have mental patients care, as part of our PAHT2030 health needs y Enable people to embrace strategic priorities. y Support our patients with conversations about mental long-term physical health health and wellbeing We aim to provide the most conditions to identify and up-to-date and expert care manage their mental health To refer a patient to the mental designed to meet the individual needs health urgent care services, needs of our patients, where y Ensure that our people have please complete the referral and when they need it. the right skills and approach form via this link > to care for patients with One in four adults and one in mental health needs You can read the full strategy ten children will experience y Ensure that our people here > mental illness (as shown in are confident and NHS England data) and our knowledgeable to recognise Thank you for your support of local population that we serve individual mental health our patients. will have mental health needs needs and provide early whilst they are under our care. intervention where required y Engage with voluntary That’s why we have developed services to further support an ambitious mental health our patients with mental strategy that sets out how we health needs will improve mental health care y Work collaboratively, working for our patients, alongside with local system partners to providing services for their 6 enhance care and pathways physical needs. 6