The MHI Network is a relatively newly formed network, consisting of practitioners, managers and others with a remit for health improvement and mental health.  Members are being drawn from NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde’s CH(C)Ps and other Partnership Structures, local Authority partners as well as from the voluntary sector.  Members will come from all backgrounds including service delivery, health improvement, planning and performance and others.

 

The Network meets quarterly to discuss issues of relevance to members.  Some recent examples are updates on the following:

• Local Anti-Stigma Partnership and the areas of work being funded through this (such as Workplace Training, Community Conversations with BME communities, etc)
• Local Choose Life Strategy / Suicide Prevention work, including updates on the HEAT target development and good practice models being developed locally
• Discussion on the proposed development of Mental Health Improvement Action Plans for CH(C)P / Local Authority areas, including the agreement of summary templates for information sharing
• Discussion on the development of communications proposals for the network, including the MHI Together Newsletter and this website to support network presence and information sharing
• Other funding and development opportunities available.

 

In the first instance it is good to have a discussion within your own organisation about who best to represent you at the network.  In some cases it is a Mental Health professional who has links to the senior managers or operational staff to develop pieces of work and disseminate appropriate material circulated via the network.  In other cases it is a health improvement colleague with a remit for mental health.  It may even be a Planning colleague or a member of your local Choose Life group – or even a combination of the above.

 

Anyone interested in getting involved should contact Greg Usrey (details in Contacts section of this site) for inclusion on the distribution list for meetings, minutes, Newsletters etc, or for more information about the network, the Mental Health Improvement Team of the Mental Health Partnership and its work streams.

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN): Clinical Guideline 114. Non-pharmaceutical management of depression. This guideline provides an assessment of, and presents the evidence base for, the efficacy of non-pharmaceutical therapies, encompassing psychological therapies, structured exercise and lifestyle interventions, and a range of alternative and complementary treatments, many of which are not routinely available within the NHS.

SMHAFF Launch 2009

 

Almost every CH(C)P in Greater Glasgow & Clyde feature in this packed catalogue of wonderful events!

The call for papers for the 18th International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services (HPH) is now open until December 15th, 2009 at

http://www.univie.ac.at/hph/manchester2010/

The title of the conference 2010 is:

"Tackling Causes and Consequences of Inequalities in Health: Contributions of Health Services and the HPH Network"

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions about the event (either via e-mail or via phone: +43 1 2121 493 21).

With health promoting seasonal greetings,

Please find attached the forth edition of the Scottish Primary Care Mental Health Research and Development Programme (SPCMHRDP) Bulletin.  This is a quarterly email bulletin, which is intended to keep you informed of new developments in primary care mental health research and practice.

 

For those involved in developing plans for older people, mental health and health improvement should note that the partners involved in the Mental Health and Wellbeing in Later Life
Programme 2006−2008 (Age Concern Scotland, Mental Health Foundation and NHS Health Scotland) have highlighted a number of recommendations with which you should be aware.