Supporting mental health in Northamptonshire
Over the course of their lifetime, one in four people will experience mental ill health – that’s more than 185,500 people in Northamptonshire alone.
It’s currently too early to know the full mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic but it is undoubtably affecting people and services, meaning this number is certainly expected to increase.
What we do know about mental health is:
- Good mental health improves people’s lives, increases their life chances and impacts positively on families and communities
- Mental health doesn’t only impact on the individual – but also those around them
- Prevention of, and recovery from, mental ill health relies on people having hope, control and opportunity in their lives
In our county…
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) is our NHS mental health care provider. The trust works closely with service users and carers, mental health care providers and practitioners in the voluntary and community sectors, as well as with other providers of secure and community mental health care in the county and the region.
Latest updates
Mental health collaborative to deliver on local ambitions
Northamptonshire’s mental health stakeholders have consolidated their programme management function. This has involved a secondment for Northamptonshire Clinical Commissioning Group’s Mental Health Commissioner into a new system-wide role, as well [...]
Northamptonshire set to trial new maternal mental health service
Northamptonshire will become one of only ten locations in the country to pilot a new maternal mental health service. The service will provide assessment and psychological interventions to women who [...]
More than 70,000 calls made to Northamptonshire’s 24/7 Mental Health Number in its first year
At the start of March 2020, Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) and mental health charity, Mind, launched the 24/7 mental health support number for people across Northamptonshire. Within the [...]
Stronger Together to support wellbeing for health and care staff
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, NHCP is committed to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of health and care staff and their families across organisations in Northamptonshire. Northamptonshire [...]
Setting out actions towards better mental health
Mental Health is one of NHCPs key priorities and it has now set out further detail on the steps being taken to drive improved mental health outcomes for the people [...]
Driving improvements for better mental health and emotional wellbeing
NHCP’s Mental Health Transformation Board is continuing its work to deliver improved outcomes and increased access to a range of local mental health services – as well as reviewing [...]