Mental Health Services are being redesigned to enable us to respond and better support people experiencing mental illness. We are engaging with staff, the public, patients and service users around inpatient mental health provision, working towards an improved service for the future.
Staff Engagement Sessions
A number of staff engagement sessions were held in person and online over October / November 2024. Two additional online sessions have been organised to allow those who might not have had opportunity or were unaware of the sessions held to date. These are open to all staff across NSHGGC and the six HSCPs.
The dates are:
1.00 – 2.00 pm, Friday 17th January 2025. Click on this link to join session
11.00 – 12.00 pm, Friday 24th January 2025. Click on this link to join session
The presentation for the sessions is here: Mental Health Strategy Staff Engagement Session Presentation
A list of Frequently Asked Questions is here: Staff FAQs Mental Health Strategy Engagement
If you have any questions, please contact: ggc.MentalHealthStrategyCommunications@nhs.scot
Mental Health Strategy 2023-2028
The NHSGGC Mental Health Strategy 2023-28 proposes a system of stepped/matched care, with people entering at the right level of intensity of treatment and allowing for movement through different levels of care. It aims to:
- Shift the balance of care into the community and better meet the needs of the patients, as more people access care through expanded community-based services.
- Deliver prevention and early intervention; including mental wellbeing and suicide prevention training for all staff, expanding computerised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (cCBT) services and supporting Wellbeing in primary care.
- Develop the focus on Recovery across community teams and inpatient settings.
- Improve the effectiveness of community services; including developing group based Psychological Therapies, offering Patient Initiated Follow Up (PIFU) which gives people control over return appointments, such as when symptoms or circumstances change, reducing appointments of low clinical value.
- Develop Unscheduled Care; Mental Health Assessment Units diverting people with Mental Health problems who do not require physical / medical treatment from Emergency Departments, community mental health acute care services offering intense support as an alternative to hospital admission and commissioned services to provide help to people in distress where a non-clinical response is more appropriate.
- The ongoing and proposed range of community developments represents new ways of working across primary, secondary and community services. They will improve care across the whole spectrum of mental health problems, but importantly and mainly for those with the most severe and complex mental disorder.
The NHSGGC strategy contributes to delivering the Scottish Government’s 2023 Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy.