Wellbeing for Life

On this page:

Who are we?

What we do together

The groups that help us

Our meeting dates and papers

News

Who to contact

Who are we? 

Our Chair

• We are currently choosing our Chair

Our Vice Chair

• We are currently choosing our Vice Chair

 Other members

• Cathy Bull, Director of Adult Social Care, Adult and Culture Services, Newcastle City Council
• Denise Pickersgill, NHS North of Tyne
• Jan Thompson, Public Health Specialist, NHS North of Tyne
• Gary O’Hare, Executive Director of Nursing and Operations, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
• Alisdair Cameron, Launchpad
• Graham Rickett, Launchpad
• There is one vacant place for Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Brendan Hill and Jacqui Jobson represent the voluntary and community sector
• Sheila Winter, Adult and Culture Services, Newcastle City Council (Delivery lead for Social inclusion and recovery)

• Clare Bethell, Newcastle and North Tyneside Community Health and Chris Drinkwater, HealthWorks (Joint Delivery leads for Prevention and Mental Health Promotion)

People who are in routine attendance at our meetings

• Caroline Wild, Head of Partnerships, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
• Ang Jamson, Strategic Commissioning Manager, Adult and Culture Services, Newcastle City Council

What we do together?

We strategically lead the work to improve the mental health and emotionally wellbeing of adults in Newcastle.  To do this we work to ensure we have a shared understanding of local need in relation to adult mental health drawing on statistical information; research; and, stakeholder feedback.  We are responsible for two sections in the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment:

• Emotional and mental wellbeing
• Adults with long term mental health needs

For further information on our role, please see our Terms of Reference.

The groups that help us

We have established the following Delivery Groups

• Prevention and Mental Health Promotion.  This group works on our behalf to plan and deliver a range of individual community interventions with the overall aim of ensuring that adults and mentally and emotionally healthy and can deal with significant life changes and challenges
• Social inclusion and recovery.  This group works on our behalf to plan and deliver a range of individual and community interventions with the overall aim of ensuring that adults with mental health needs contribute to and are included in their communities; are engaged in employment, volunteering, education or training; and, can find and stay in a suitable home

Our meeting dates and papers

Please click on the date below for the meeting you would like the minutes for, or to view the upcoming agendas where this is already available. 

If you are interested in observing Mental Health Strategic Board meetings, or any other meeting, you are welcome to do so, although we would prefer prior arrangement is made.  Find out more on this on our FAQs page.

News

December 2010 news

February 2011 news

April 2011 news

August 2011 news

Who to contact

For all queries about the Mental Health Strategic Board, please contact Helen Wilding, Lead Coordinator, at helen.wilding@newcastle.gov.uk.  Alternatively, for general enquiries, you can contact us at wellbeing@newcastle.gov.uk