Why it’s important
What we can do
How we'll measure progress
Why it’s important
Mental health and wellbeing can affect everyday life for everyone, regardless of their age. We want people to have the best mental health and wellbeing in supportive, inclusive and thriving communities.
In addition to listening to our communities, we work closely with NHS England and have an active role in wider mental health networks. This has allowed us to benchmark and understand regional innovations and best practice, to improve local services.
What we can do
Core to our work in mental health is collaboration with people who have lived experience of mental ill-health, to learn how we can best support the needs of our local communities in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
Their involvement in projects such as the Community Mental Health Framework has resulted in the recent creation of Mental Health & Integrated Network Teams (MINTs). These teams provide more accessible mental health and wellbeing support at primary care level.
We also understand the importance of recognising people with learning disabilities and autistic people, providing them with appropriate support for their needs. Whether they are children or adults, we want to ensure people are able to be assessed quickly, so personalised care can be implemented to support their education and daily lives.
Our six ambitions for our mental health strategy are:
- Holistic care
- Prevention and early help
- Quality treatment
- Sustainable services
- Advancing equalities
- Great place to work.
Video of Dominic Hardisty, Chief Executive of Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership talking about the All Age Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
How we’ll measure progress
- Reduction in the waiting list for NHS Talking Therapies services by the start of 2025.
- Deliver mental health and wellbeing teams (MINTs) across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire at locality level by the end of 2024.
- Implement a digital self-referral process for eating disorders by the end of 2025.
- Improve community service reach to diverse communities in BNSSG by the end of 2024, through investment in voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations such as Nilaari, Bristol Black Carers and Somali Resource Centre to improve culturally responsive support.
This page provides an overview. To read about our plans in detail, take a look at the full Joint Forward Plan 2024-2029.
Joint Forward Plan 2024-2029Strategic Commitments
Outcomes Framework
The Strategic Commitments and Outcomes Framework tick boxes show a brief summary of how different areas of work contribute to our wider strategic aims and outcomes.
Outcomes framework – We use a system outcomes framework to measure our progress. Each outcome has linked indicators designed to monitor our progress and link it back to our strategic objectives.
Strategic commitments – These are the nine commitments we made in our Integrated Care System Strategy to transform our services.