Making a Difference In the NHS

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Making a DifferenceIn the NHS
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Inclusion, Well Being and Partnerships

• Engaging and supporting staff to maximise
  personal well being and the delivery of high
  quality care

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Making a Difference and Good Mental Health

• One in six adults at any one time has mental
  health problems, but mental health services
  account for only about 13 of the total NHS
  budget
• Estimated annual cost to the British economy of
  working days lost to depression, stress and
  anxiety is 4b
• Mental ill health is the biggest cause of
  sickness absence from work

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Making a Difference and Good Mental Health

• GPs spend a third of their time on mental health
  issues
• Nearly three in ten employees will have a mental
  health problem
• 52 of people with a psychiatric history have
  concealed this fact from their employer for fear
  of losing their job
• People with mental health problems have the
  lowest rate of employment for any disabled group
• (Mental Health and Employment CSIP 08)

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Making a Difference and Good Mental Health

• 260 m per annum is estimated to be lost in the
  East Midlands economy to mental ill health per
  annum
• Highest regional rate of average days lost due to
  self reported stress, depression and anxiety
  caused or made worse by work
• Up to 4.5 of the working population can be
  claiming Incapacity Benefit because of mental ill
  health
• 1.5 m in UK have a learning disability but less
  than 10 have a job
• The largest pay out for stress in the workplace
  was awarded against an East Midlands Employer
• (Mental Health and Employment in the East
  Midlands CSIP 08)

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Staff have to be happy and here (i.e. at work)
in order to deliver efficiency gains and first
rate services. That is the best way to position
our organisations to better deliver core
functions( Lord Hunt, Ministerial Task Force on
Health, Safety and Productivity)
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Work can keep us well but also make us unwell

• Employment regarded as positive protective
  factor. However statistics show people with
  mental health problems have lowest rate of
  employment for all disabled groups (PSA 16 AHC
  23)
• VS
• Work environment as cause of stress and common
  mental health problems (AHC 23)

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PSA 16

• PSA aim
• To ensure that the most socially excluded adults
  are offered the chance to get back on a path to a
  more successful life, by increasing the
  proportion who are in settled accommodation and
  in employment, education or training. The PSA
  focuses on 4 client groups
• Care leavers (at 19)
• Adult offenders under probation supervision
• Adults receiving secondary mental health
  services
• Adults with moderate to severe learning
  disabilities

• PSA vision
• Cross-government, cross-sector approach to
  effectively meeting the complex needs of
  vulnerable adults. Jointly owned by CO, CLG,
  DWP, MoJ, DH, DCSF and DIUS.
• Sends a clear signal that tackling social
  exclusion and improving opportunities for
  vulnerable adults is a top Government priority.
• Without a home and job vulnerable adults risk a
  lifetime of exclusion and wasted potential.
  Through the PSA the Government wants to extend
  the aspirations of a home and a job, that most
  take for granted, to the most excluded.

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Touching Peoples Lives Really Making a
Difference
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• Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do
  something. 
• Author Unknown