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Why it’s important
What we can do
How we'll measure progress
Why it’s important
What we can do
How we'll measure progress
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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.
We also want everyone with a learning disability and autistic people to live longer, healthier and happier lives. To do this, we want to ensure that people are supported to have more choice, control and independence, and are always treated with dignity and respect.
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.
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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 and Integrated Network Teams (MINTs). These teams provide more accessible mental health and wellbeing support at primary care level.
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
We also understand the importance of recognising people with learning disabilities and autistic people, and providing appropriate support for their needs. Whether children or adults, we want to ensure people can be assessed quickly, so personalised care can be implemented to support their education and daily lives.
We really value patient voice and co-production and are working together to develop our disability and autism pathway.
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.
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How we’ll measure progress
- Continue to build our Mental Health and Wellbeing Integrated Network Teams (MINTs).
- Increase access to perinatal mental health services.
- All people on the Learning Disability Register aged over 14 years to receive an Annual Health Check.
- Reduce the number of people waiting and improve timeliness of autism and ADHD assessments.
This page provides an overview. To read about our plans in detail, take a look at the full Joint Forward Plan 2025 to 2030.
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Strategic Commitments
Align everything we do to the outcomes we want
Demonstrate our system-wide commitment to prevention
Focus on the first 1,001 days to give our children the best start
Change how we work to reduce health inequalities actively
Prioritise the health impacts of poverty and disadvantage
Build a workforce who are supported, skilled and healthy
Focus on the whole person – not just the disease
Work together as equal partners to tackle our biggest problems
Support the economy with our purchasing and employment practices
Develop a better, healthier environment for people to live in
Outcomes Framework
The healthy life expectancy of our population
The health and wellbeing of our population
The health of services
The health and wellbeing of our staff
The health and wellbeing of our communities
The health and wellbeing of our environment
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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.