Nottingham Insight

Scope

This Mental Health JSNA Profile is focused on people aged 16 and older living in Nottingham or Nottinghamshire experiencing:

• Common Mental Health Disorders (CMDs) comprising types of depression and anxiety, including generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder, phobias, and obsessive compulsive disorder; and/or
• Low mental wellbeing. Mental wellbeing can be defined as feeling good and functioning well. Mental wellbeing helps people to cope with the stresses of life, realise their abilities, learn well and work well, and contribute to their community.

This JSNA Profile also explores how to help people to stay mentally well in their communities. This can include promoting mental wellbeing and mental health, preventing future mental health problems, and supporting recovery. This is sometimes referred to as a public mental health approach.

Although the focus of this JSNA Profile is not on secondary mental health care or mental health crisis services, people experiencing CMDs or low mental wellbeing may access these types of services. The Profile therefore includes some information about these services, including data on service access.

Serious Mental Illness (SMI), which includes diagnoses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or other psychotic illnesses that cause severe functional impairment, is not in scope of this JSNA.

Local strategic context

The ambition for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire residents to have good mental health features across the local strategic context. Prevention is a common theme across local strategies, whether in the context of reducing mental or physical ill health. The locally endorsed Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Mental Health Pathway: Strategic Plan 2024/25-2026/2027 in particular is a driver for delivering an integrated mental health pathway that supports people to live well in their local community. For more details of the local strategic context including links to relevant local strategies and plans, click here. Common local strategic themes include:

• A focus on and investment in prevention of mental health problems occurring and prevention of existing mental health problems escalating.
• Ensuring there is parity of esteem between physical health and mental health. This includes reducing inequalities in life expectancy and healthy life expectancy experienced by people living with mental health problems.
• Ensuring people have mental health awareness and know how to, and can, access the right support, in the right place, at the right time. This includes providing information and signposting to help people look after their own mental wellbeing and to reduce stigma.
• Supporting the workforce to be trained in mental health awareness.

Ensuring the building blocks of mental health are in place, through community-based support, early intervention, and support for financial wellbeing.

Public Health Knowledge & Intelligence Team
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Publichealth.analysts@nottinghamcity.gov.uk