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This engagement programme ended in autumn 2022. Read our new mental health strategy for South West London.
We are continuing to develop a new mental health strategy for South West London. Over the past few months we have received extensive feedback via both an online survey and through discussions at a number of engagement sessions. The outputs from this engagement have helped shape the themes and ambitions for the strategy, which we shared and discussed with service users and stakeholders in a series of engagement events in October 2022.
Background
We are talking to a wide range of people across South West London to make sure our new mental health strategy reflects what matters most to the people who use our services, the people who care for them and local residents.
The past two years have seen immense change and challenge in mental health services across South West London.
While some of the services we provide, and what they deliver, are decided nationally, there is some flexibility around how services are designed, including how people access our services and the way we deliver care.
What we want to do
There are already several initiatives underway to improve mental health services in South West London, including community mental health transformation and the development of maternal mental health services.
We want to make sure that anyone who is at risk of developing a mental health condition can receive help early, in a way that works for them, provided with dignity and respect.
We want to build on the best of our current services and provide high quality, accessible wellbeing and mental health services to everyone.
Outcome
Over the summer and autumn of 2022 we met with a wide range of service users, staff and stakeholders. We are considered all of the feedback we received to develop a strategy that works for everyone.
To support the new strategy we designed and developed structures and a costed delivery plan for 2023/24 for delivering the strategy across South West London. The strategy and these plans were reviewed by the NHS South West London Integrated Care Board before being published.
This is a strategy that focuses on prevention (from pregnancy and birth onwards for the whole life course) as much as treatment which values emotional wellbeing and community resilience.
Publishing our strategy is just the start. We will continue to work alongside our service users, staff, partners and stakeholders to make sure that we mental health and wellbeinf services work for everyone who lives, works or studies in Croydon, Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth.