Public Health ConferenceBrighton

14th June 2016

Well Connected

Setting the scene

Susan McMorrin, Senior Health Promotion Officer

NHS Lanarkshire

It’s No Secret• 25% of adults will experience a

mental health problem (over 70,000 in Lanarkshire).

• 1% will have severe and enduring mental health problems (5,000 people).

• 10% Children (6,500).• 20% total impact of disease.

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Tiered Model of Service Delivery

Tertiary Care

Specialist Secondary Care Mental Health Services

Primary Care & Mental Health Services

Community Health & Wellbeing

Tier3

Tier 2

Tier 1

Tier 0

High Need

Low Need

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Well Connected is sometimes called community referral or social prescribing. It is a mechanisms for linking people with non-medical sources of support within the community & provides an evidence based framework for:

– developing alternative responses to mental health problems and low levels of well-being

– a wider recognition of the influence of social, economic, environmental and cultural factors on mental health and well-being

– improving access to mainstream services and opportunities for people with mental health problems, low levels of well-being or those socially excluded.

Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health (2007) Developing social prescribing and community referrals for mental health in Scotland www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/health/mental-health/section25-31/communityprescribing

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Lanarkshire Social Prescribing for Mental Health Development Group: Multi-agency group Examine the evidence base Reach, comprehensive, sustainable & embedded Identify the opportunities and resources Make the connections Develop the pathways, systems & evaluation framework Build capacity Promotion materials Make the process as easy as possible

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The key areas’ are:• Exercise and Leisure including Green Space

opportunities &Get Walking Lanarkshire• Volunteering• Employment• Arts, Creativity and Culture• Welfare, Debt and Benefit Advice• Life Long Learning/ Training• Stress Control, NHS 24 Telephone support,

Mindfulness, Computerised CBT: Beating the Blues• Healthy Reading in libraries

Domains are we Focussing On

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Supportive Resources: Booklets and Concertina Cards

Supportive Resources: Information and Pathways

Supportive Resources: Information and Pathways

• All 50 libraries signed the see me pledge and action plan

• All librarians trained in mental health awareness

• Information prescribing programme launched 2010 across all Lanarkshire Libraries. (more than 1000 resources borrowed every month).

• wallet cards produced.• stress and depression self-help leaflets

distributed to be given at point of contact. Further 12 leaflets accessible via elament.

• elament web site redeveloped (receiving 1,500 hits per month).

• Healthy reading leaflet• Mood boosting books

Reaching Communities: Libraries & Beyond

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• Easier to connect with the outdoors

• 93 new walk leaders trained

• 27 walks each week• 508 walkers each week• Cumulative walkers

total 7,401• Medal Routes set up at

each NHS Lanarkshire acute site

Well Connected: Green Assets for Health Benefit

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Supportive Resources: Information and Pathways

Potential Benefits of Well Connected?• Improving self confidence and self esteem• Reducing low mood• Reducing feelings of stress• Helping people deal with the problems that are causing low

well-being such as money worries, loneliness and unemployment

• Helping people develop positive ways of coping with the challenges of life

• Increasing opportunities for social contact• Learning new and useful skills• Improving community spirit• Increasing the number of people using arts, leisure,

education, volunteering, sporting and other activities

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Summary of results• Exercise and Leisure – 6,461 memberships  • Get Walking Lanarkshire- 7401 walkers• Volunteering• Employment• Arts, Creativity and Culture• Welfare, Debt and Benefit Advice- 5,628 referred &

attended• Life Long Learning/ Training• Stress Control- 108 courses • Computerised CBT: Beating the Blues- 2877 referrals• Healthy Reading – 29,000 resources borrowed,

269,600 resources via leaflet request

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For more information please contactsusan.mcmorrin@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

or go to Lanarkshire Mental Health web sitewww.elament.org.uk