Publish date: 4 December 2020

Across Wigan Borough, there are a large number of services and teams offering different levels and intensity of support to meet the wide range of mental health and wellbeing needs of our local population.

With the transfer of services from North West Boroughs Healthcare to Greater Manchester Mental Health next year and experiences and learning from the Covid-19 pandemic, the Healthier Wigan Partnership is taking the opportunity to carry out some engagement work to better understand what we are currently doing and think about what we want it to look like in the future.

These conversations are starting with you!

Hearing your experiences and expertise is absolutely key in this so we’re asking staff from across health, care, social care, community groups, schools and police who provide any level of mental health and wellbeing support to residents, to tell us about your service.

We want to hear:

  • what you feel works well
  • if and how could things be better
  • if there are any unmet needs

Hear from Emma Nazurally, Associate Director for Wigan, Bolton and Greater Manchester below:

Survey

To make sure everyone has an opportunity to contribute to the conversation, there is a short survey to gather your views. This survey will run from Monday 30 November 2020 to Monday 4 January 2021

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Focus groups

There are also a number of focus groups where you can get involved in discussions, please see details below:

Topic

Date and time

Booking link

Working with the voluntary and community sector to improve community mental health

Thursday 10 December

12noon to 1.30pm

Session full!

Mental health services and community services - patient transition and support

Tuesday 15 December

12.30pm to 2pm

Session full!

Supporting mental health in schools

Tuesday 15 December

4pm to 5.30pm

Session full!

*EXTRA SESSION*

Supporting mental health in schools 

Wednesday 16 December 11am -12:30pm Book onto this session here.

Referring patients into services

Wednesday 16 December

1.30pm to 3pm

Session full!

Mental health services and hospital services - patient transition and support

Thursday 17 December

5pm to 6.30pm

Book onto this session here.

*EXTRA SESSION*

Working with the voluntary and community sector to improve community mental health

Friday 18 December

2.30pm – 4pm
Book onto this session here.

*EXTRA SESSION*

Mental health services and community services - patient transition and support

Monday 21 December

1.30pm – 3pm

Book onto this session here.

*EXTRA SESSION*

Referring patients into services

Wednesday 23 December

12:30pm-2pm

Book onto this session here.

What’s this being used for?

This will form part of a wider engagement project which is being used to help shape the future of the borough’s mental health and wellbeing offer.

Our aim is that residents receive mental health and wellbeing support that is well invested, coordinated, resourced and sustainable.

You can find out more about the engagement project here.