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
#ThrowbackThursday – Virtual Wellbeing Festival 2020
As COVID-19 swept across the globe, NHCP’s annual celebration of health and social care staff seemed destined for postponement. But going virtual kept the festival alive – delivering a [...]
Transforming local community mental health services
National changes to community mental health services are being implemented which impact how these services are provided in England. In line with the national programme, and as part of [...]
Northamptonshire invests in new clinically-led online suicide prevention resource
Togetherall is a digital platform which provides support for people with suicidal thoughts to access clinically-led resources, self-guided groups and online forums. This online community is managed by psychology [...]
Wellbeing at home and support for voluntary sector resilience
NHCP’s Mental Health Programme Executive Group has recently met for the second time. The meeting involved a discussion on ‘Finding my Place – Wellbeing at Home’, exploring how housing [...]
Stronger Together service supports staff mental health
Public sector colleagues across Northamptonshire are benefiting from coordinated local support for their mental health and wellbeing. Stronger Together provides support to health and social care staff in Northamptonshire [...]
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 [...]