Agenda item

Plymouth Mental Health Programme Board

Minutes:

Lin Walton (NHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group) was present for this item and referred to the report in the agenda pack.  It was highlighted that:

 

(a)

 

the Plymouth Mental Health Programme Board is a multi-agency board which meets bi-monthly and was established to cover all age groups and to develop plans to meet the needs of the Plymouth population;

 

(b)

 

 

sixteen priority areas were identified and the prioritisation reflects the status of service or pathways in the city alongside the importance to people’s mental health and wellbeing;

 

(c)

 

 

nationally there was a recognition that mental health funding was behind physical health funding and that despite investment were not at the same level of equity.

In response to questions raised, it was reported that:

 

(c)

 

 

Plymouth would be involved in the work and input into the workstreams;

 

(d)

 

 

there was a separate workstream addressing autism and the Autism Partnership Board would pick up this area of work.  However it was reported that the waiting time for the autism diagnosis in Devon was longer than Plymouth;

 

(e)

 

 

there was a challenge around the workforce to support people with mental health, however this was a national problem and not unique to Plymouth.   There was a need to think more broadly about what the workforce would look like and the skill mixes rather than just thinking about the specialists roles;

 

(f)

 

some of the work we need to do in terms of what that third sector capacity needs to needs to look like and the acknowledgement that the third sector need both support and capacity in order to deliver and was something that would need to be addressed for moving forward.

 

The Board to note Plymouth Mental Health Programme Board Report.

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