Good Mental Health for All
Improving the mental health of the population
NHS Shetland’s Health Improvement team are leading on ‘Good Mental Health for All’. The project focusses on working to refresh the mental health strategy for Shetland which will be focused on prevention, early intervention, community led support and population wellbeing. Led by a steering group, the following sectors are represented: Lived Experience; Public Health; Primary Care; Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Group; Voluntary Action Shetland; Community Hubs and Community Ethos Group; Community Development; and Health Improvement. To create meaningful societal change, a partnership approach is required, to tackle the local causes of poor mental health, and work together to reach effective solutions.
The steering group have been working together to agree the scope of the refreshed mental health strategy, gather local data which demonstrates local need, develop a local mental health indicator ‘dataset’ and scoping of the strategic landscape, locally and nationally. They are planning community engagement to involve a wide range of stakeholders and communities in developing the refreshed strategy. This links to all of the Partnership priorities of ‘Participation’, ‘People’, ‘Place’ and ‘Money’. Central to the project is community. What people eat; how they exercise; how they work; the environment that they live in; and the relationships they have with others can all effect their mental health.