Leeds Mental Health

Strategy EngagementForum Central & Young Lives Leeds

members meeting

Sarah Erskine, Health Improvement Principal, Public Health, Adults & Health, Leeds City Council.

Kashif Ahmed, Head of Commissioning (MH &LD), Clinical Commissioning Group

26th September 2019

• Importance of good mental health is becoming

more widely understood across the UK

• Lots of work is happening about mental health

in Leeds

– From children and Young People to Adults

– From statutory Services to 3rd Sector organisations to

community groups

– In workplaces, families, homes, schools

• Realised the need to bring this together, so

everyone is working towards the same vision

Why a mental health strategy?

with largest local

authority area in the UK

2nd city

17% of the population

(137,000) is black and

minority ethnic

17% BME

15%growth

in population over next

25 years (775,000 in 2011)

180,000+children

and young people

10,000births a year

10,000university students

on health and care courses

£21 billionper annum

estimated value of economy

in Leeds centre (GVM)

167+ medical technology

and health informatics

companies in Leeds

2 of the largest patient record

providers are based in Leeds

World leading digital health and innovation

22%

of all digital health

jobs in England

50% ofall research

in Leeds is in health and

care

18% of allmed-techpatents

are in Leeds

Leeds Digital Festival

Home to the largest

digital festival in the

North

Fastest growing

regional airport in the UK

Leeds hospitals

LTHT is one of the largest

in Europe

CQC rated ‘Good’ overall

with ‘outstanding’ in caring.

St Gemma’s rated ‘outstanding’

5 leading universities

including One Russell Group

Green City

parks and green

spaces with the

equivalent area of

5,600 football

pitches

Top 5 shopping destination

170languages

spoken across Leeds

12.7%of all jobs

in Leeds are in this sector

29%

of entrepreneurs are

female (highest in UK

alongside Cambridge and

Liverpool)

£1.9 billion

expenditure on

health and social

care

35Neighbourhood Networks

supporting 21,900 older

people in the community

57,000staff in the workforce

plus 17,000 staff

employed by the Third

Sector and

approximately 200,000 volunteers

1,642charities in Leeds

338 work in the area of

“advancement of health’

48,000 people with diabetes

34% children with unhealthy weight

at age 11 in Leeds

1 in 5 inactive

People withseveremental illness

die on average 15–20 years

earlier than the rest of the

population

105,000 people with anxietyor depression

OFSTED rated‘Outstanding’

Only core city with this rating for

Local Authority Children’s

services

1st in the UK

to implement the single patient

record

1st in the UK

to share mental health data

Over 2,000 people

previously inactive now participate

in physical activity each week

Reduced smoking prevalence

between 2007–2017 from 30% to

17%37,000 people isolated

or experiencing loneliness

52,000new homes

in Leeds proposed

up to 2033

407,000work in the city

25m day visitors

in 2016 worth £1.12bn

to the local economy

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3 out of 5 UK NHSE bodies

have HQs in the Leeds City Region

6%injobs

within private sector in

2014–2015 (highest

of any UK city)

This is us:

a compassionate city with a strong economy

BUT STILL WITH POCKETS OF

INEQUALITIES

A tale of two cities@

Influences

• Children and Young People’s Plan

• Future In Mind

• Mental Health Framework 2014-2017

• Suicide Prevention: Action Plan for Leeds

• Best Start Programme

• Mental Health Prevention Concordat

• NHS Long Term Plan

• ICS Mental Health Programme

Related strategies already in Leeds

• To be able to access services when they need them

• Information to be clear, accessible and easy to understand

• Services to talk to each other so that they are more joined up

• To be at the centre of their care

• Professionals to be clear, open and honest

• More information and awareness about mental health made

available through both education and health and social care

systems

• There to be enough support for people in crisis

• For mental health to be seen as important as physical health

• More provision of services including mental health and wellbeing

services

• Having opportunities to keep mentally well and knowing what’s

available locally

People in Leeds have told us they

wantG

“Leeds will be a mentally healthy city for

everyone”Which meansG.

• People of all ages and communities will be comfortable talking

about their mental health and wellbeing

• People will be part of mentally healthy, safe and supportive

families, communities and workplace

• People’s quality of life will be improved by timely access to

appropriate mental health services and information

• People will be actively involved in their mental health and their care

• People with long term mental health conditions will live longer and

lead fulfilling, healthy lives

Vision

At the heart of this will be ‘diverse services but one culture across

the system’

• Taking into account the wider determinants of mental health and

illness

• Achieving parity of esteem between physical and mental health

• Challenging stigma and prejudice

• Recognising the impact of trauma on peoples mental health

• Taking an evidence based approach to what works

• Adopting a recovery and wellbeing focus wherever possible

• Supporting the system to address issues of inclusion and diversity

• Taking a person and family-centred and strengths based and

restorative practice approach

• Targeting communities most at risk of experiencing poor mental

health

Principles of our approach

Passion Priorities

Reduce Mental

Health Inequalities

1. Reduce the risk of suicide and self-

harm, targeting those communities

most at risk of poor mental health

2. Reduce the over-representation of

people from BAME backgrounds

detained under the Mental Health

Act

3. Increase the numbers of people

with mental health needs in

education, training and

employment.

Focus areas to become a mentally

healthy city

Passion Priorities

Improve children

and young

people’s mental

health

4. Improve transition support and

develop new mental health services

for 14-25 year olds

Focus areas to become a mentally

healthy city

Passion Priorities

Improve flexibility,

integration and

responsiveness of

services

5. Ensure services recognise the

impact that trauma has on people’s

mental health and respond

appropriately

6. Improve timely access to crisis

support services

7. Ensure information, support and

services are appropriate for, and

accessible to, older people

Focus areas to become a mentally

healthy city

We want to hear about mental health from

you:

1. What do you think of the strategy,

passions and priorities?

2. Have we missed something?

3. What do you do already to keep people

mentally healthy?

4. What actions would you expect to see to

make the priorities happen?

Workshop

• September:

– More engagement with other groups, and key stakeholders

– Tweaks to the strategy based on feedback

– Start to build delivery plan using feedback

• October:

– Present new draft back to Health & Wellbeing Board

• November:

– Work up delivery plan

• Early 2020

– Exec Board Sign off

– Finalise document and delivery plan, for a launch in the new

financial year

Next Steps