Mental health needs assessment
Public Health, Suffolk County Council have produced this Mental Health Needs Assessment to:
- Provide a picture of mental health in Suffolk
- Support mental health improvement
- Inform strategies for promoting mental health, reducing inequalities and commissioning services
- Inform partnership working, with stakeholders and the community, through a shared understanding of needs
The NHS Ipswich & East Suffolk and NHS West Suffolk clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and partners want to transform the way mental health provision is delivered across the County. They commissioned this update to the Mental Health Needs Assessment (MHNA) to inform this transformation - #averydifferentconversation - which began in May 2018. For more information, visit the #averydifferentconversation webpage.
This assessment has been produced in sections which can be downloaded and updated as necessary, to allow easy access for users and straightforward revision. More chapters and presentations will continue to be added.
If you would like more information, further analysis, or to give constructive feedback please contact the Public Health Knowledge & Intelligence Team.
PDF documents produced for the 2018 Mental Health Needs Assessment unless stated otherwise.
- Mental Health Needs Assessment - Summary
- Common mental disorders
- CQC community mental health survey
- Crisis report (2019)
- Depression prevalence
- Eating disorders
- Economics of mental health (2017)
- Inequalities
- Learning disabilities & mental health
- Mental health and lifestyle
- Mental health & older people
- Perinatal (2017)
- Personality disorder
- Physical health (long-term conditions) & mental health
- Projecting mental health problems
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (2017)
- Self-harm
- Severe mental illness
- Suicide (web page, 2020)
- Transgender & non-binary people and mental illness
- Workplace health (2017)
The posters are intended to help people who commission mental health services to understand needs in Suffolk and to reduce inequalities. They include anonymous quotes from people who engaged with #averydifferentconversation (full report from Healthwatch).
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Eating disorders - data
- Later life: mental health
- Learning disabilities & mental health
- Long-term conditions (chronic disease) & mental health
- Personality disorders
- Preventing suicide
- Psychosis
- Severe Mental Illness
- Post traumatic stress disorder
- Transgender & non-binary people & mental health
PDF copies of presentations we have delivered on the mental health needs assessment:
- West Suffolk GPs (21 June 2018)
- Ipswich & East Suffolk Clinical Executive Group (11 September 2018)
- West Suffolk Clinical Executive (12 September 2018)
- Suffolk Mentally Healthy Communities Board (14 September 2018)
- Children's Emotional Wellbeing Board (25 September 2018)
- Health & Wellbeing Board (8 November 2018)
- Mental health (2019) (part of when we get ill: State of Suffolk)
- Alcohol
- Maternal mental health advice
- Substance misuse: children
- Suffolk Lives Matter
- Mental Health Act 2016/17 - interactive visualisation of statistics - incl. demographics for Suffolk
- Mental health & wellbeing JSNA - Public Health England
- Mental health, dementia & neurology - Public Health England profiling tools
- Suffolk Armed Forces: Community Covenant - health and wellbeing
- Five ways to wellbeing - Suffolk campaign
- Mindfulness - Suffolk resource
- When we get ill: mental health - part of the State of Suffolk 2019
- Workplace wellbeing - Suffolk campaign