Shaping The Future of Local Mental Health Support - Update
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In June 2021, Healthwatch Wiltshire, Wiltshire Centre for Independent Living (Wiltshire CIL) and the Wiltshire Parent Carer Council (WPCC) hosted a series of online focus groups to create, shape and influence a new vision for Mental Health support for the future in Bath & North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire.
[The Future of Mental Health Support] aims to represent and understand the views of people with lived experience of mental health. Getting early support that helps prevent mental health issues getting worse and having a sense of purpose in life were key messages from those participating in the work.
The joint work follows the publication of the national Community Mental Health Services Framework, which looks at how support for people in the future can be delivered more locally, to help them live well. The focus groups showed that people don’t want to be defined by their mental health and they made it clear that early support will help them to lead the lives they want to. The report: [The Future of Mental Health Support], has been shared with Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group (BSW CCG), which plans and commissions mental health services for the region. Emily Shepherd, (Senior Commissioning Manager for Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism at BSW CCG), said: “Thank you to Healthwatch Wiltshire, Wiltshire Parent Carer Council and Wiltshire CIL for hosting these valuable sessions, and to those who took part for sharing their ideas. We’ll be using all the feedback we’ve received to help shape and develop local mental health support services.” [You can read more here].
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