Issue - meetings

Background:

This report presented the Medway Adult Mental Health Strategy, which had been developed by NHS Medway Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Medway Council and set out the vision for improving outcomes for people with mental health problems in Medway over the next five years. 

An action plan outlining the key aims, actions, leads and outcome measures had been developed alongside the strategy and would be finalised once the strategy had received authorisation from Cabinet. 

The strategy set out details of how the Council, the CCG and the other local partners would:

·           Commit to achieving parity of esteem for mental health;

·           Promote mental health and well-being in communities;

·           Focus on early intervention and preventing Medway residents from developing significant mental health problems;

·           Ensure that when people need help they can access appropriate intervention quickly; that services are of the highest possible quality and will proactively support people to recover and remain well;

·           Recognise the need for services to be integrated and work together to deliver high quality services close to home;

·           Improve mental health provision in primary care, allowing specialist secondary care mental health services to focus on complex and specialist interventions.

It was noted that the Health and Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 16 October 2018 and the Health and Wellbeing Board on 6 November 2018, had considered the Strategy. Their comments were set out in the report.

A Diversity Impact Assessment screening form was attached at Appendix 2 to the report.

Reasons:

Cabinet approval is required to implement The Medway Adult Mental Health Strategy 2018 to 2023 which sets out our vision for improving outcomes for people with mental health problems in Medway over the next five years.