Presentation at the Faculty of Public Health annual conference 2016

1. Public Health Conference
Brighton
14th
June 2016

2. Well Connected
Setting the scene
Susan McMorrin, Senior Health Promotion Officer
NHS Lanarkshire

3. 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.
www.elament.org.uk

4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. Supportive Resources: Booklets and Concertina Cards

9. Supportive Resources: Information and Pathways

10. Supportive Resources: Information and Pathways

11. • 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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12. • 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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13. Supportive Resources: Information and Pathways

14. 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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15. 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
www.lanarkshirementalhealth.org.uk

16. For more information please contact
susan.mcmorrin@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
or go to Lanarkshire Mental Health web site
www.elament.org.uk