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Time to Talk Day
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Time to Talk Day is the nation’s biggest mental health conversation. Happening every year, it’s a day for friends, families, communities, and workplaces to come together to talk, listen and change lives.
Time to Talk Day 2024 will take place 1 February 2024. It’s run by Mind and Rethink Mental Illness and is being delivered in partnership with Co-op for the third year running.
The more conversations we have, the better life is for everyone. Talking about mental health isn’t always easy and sometimes it’s even harder to say how you really feel. But a conversation has the power to change lives.
Time to Talk Day is the perfect opportunity to start a conversation about mental health.
Have a look at these activities to do with your teams on time to talk day.
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Advice Services
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We recently held an Oxfordshire advice services sector engagement workshop where we captured the views of stakeholders around current advice services and what future provision could look like.
We are keen to find out the views of people that have used advice services in Oxfordshire.
Please share the following link: https://letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/advice-services to access information about services and the survey.
We would be grateful if you could promote this survey as widely as possible with the people you are or have worked with.
The survey closes on 30 November 2023.
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All-Age Unpaid Carers Strategy for Oxfordshire
Share All-Age Unpaid Carers Strategy for Oxfordshire on Facebook Share All-Age Unpaid Carers Strategy for Oxfordshire on Twitter Share All-Age Unpaid Carers Strategy for Oxfordshire on Linkedin Email All-Age Unpaid Carers Strategy for Oxfordshire linkThe All-age Unpaid Carers Strategy for Oxfordshire is for anyone who regularly supports another person on an unpaid basis – whether that be a friend, child with additional needs, loved one, parent, sibling, or a combination of these people.
This strategy has been co-produced with 1,600 adult and young carers along with stakeholders from Oxfordshire County Council, Carers Oxfordshire and many other partners from Oxfordshire County Council’s health and the voluntary sector.As a care provider we would like you to ensure that you include unpaid carers within your satisfaction surveys. We'd particularly like you to ask for their experience with the following:
- When I need to talk to the care provider do I get a prompt response?
- Are my queries normally resolved to my satisfaction when it’s a care agency matter?
- How can the agency improve the responses it makes to your needs as the family relative, carer friend?
Our Quality Improvement Team will capture this as feedback through our monitoring of your services and it will help us all to help improve the experience of these vital carers.
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The new Joint Strategic Needs Assessment has gone live!
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The Health and Wellbeing Board has just produced the 2023 Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) which is designed to inform local decision-making, by identifying community needs, so that they can be met by service provision. It provides the intelligence that will inform the Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy (in development) which, in turn will identify priorities for action to improve the health and wellbeing of Oxfordshire’s residents and reduce health inequalities.
You can use the JSNA to:
- find out about the key issues affecting the health and wellbeing of your local community
- identify demographic groups and geographical areas that need targeted support
- provide evidence of local needs to support funding applicaitons and inform research projects
View the JSNA at Oxfordshire Insight, and use the interactive tools to explore data on different topics and local communities.
Key findings from this year’s report include:
Population and Demographics
- Between 2011-2021 Oxfordshire’s population increased by 10.9%, above the growth in England (6.6%).
- The population from mixed or multiple ethnic groups has increased by 71% over the past 10 years.
Start Well
- Most children in Oxfordshire, assessed as part of the Healthy Child Programme development review around their second birthday, reached a good level of development in five key areas. However, children living in areas with higher income deprivation had a lower (worse) than average good level of development.
- The number of mental health referrals for young people has increased, especially for those aged 10-19.
- There are clear inequalities for childhood obesity by deprivation, sex, and ethnic group. Data shows that children were more likely to be obese in more deprived areas of Oxfordshire.
Living Well
- Oxfordshire’s population is relatively healthy and does better or similar to the national average on most public health indicators.
- Some health conditions are above the national average, including cancer and osteoporosis.
- But there are pockets of deprivation and wide inequalities in health and wellbeing.
Age Well
- Oxfordshire’s population is ageing, a trend that is predicted to continue.
- There are clear inequalities in life expectancy across Oxfordshire. Males living in more affluent areas of the county are expected to live around 11 years longer than those in poorer areas. For females, this gap is around 12 years.
- In 2021-22 the rate of hospital admissions due to falls was above the national average.
- Oxfordshire was ranked the loneliest county compared with its statistical neighbours.
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Making Every Contact Count (MECC)
Share Making Every Contact Count (MECC) on Facebook Share Making Every Contact Count (MECC) on Twitter Share Making Every Contact Count (MECC) on Linkedin Email Making Every Contact Count (MECC) linkOxfordshire County Council’s Public Health team are working on the strategic roll out of making every contact count (MECC) by supporting organisations and services across Oxfordshire to embed MECC in their everyday work.
Would you/your staff like to be more confident talking about health with the people you support?
Would you/your staff like to support people to make positive changes to their health and wellbeing?
If so, MECC training could be the answer!
MECC is about utilising the day-to-day interactions we have with others to help people make positive changes to their physical and mental health and access the support they need.
MECC training is available to support staff to gain the skills and confidence needed to have conversations with others about health and wellbeing and then signpost to support services. Public Health are calling all organisations and services that have contact with the public to undertake MECC training. The training is designed to support staff to make the most of their everyday conversations and respond appropriately to cues for issues that come up in conversations and may be affecting people’s wellbeing such as money worries, finding a job, mental health and changes to lifestyle such as healthy eating or stopping smoking.
A MECC interaction takes a matter of minutes and is not intended to add to existing busy workloads, rather it is structured to fit into and complement existing conversations.
The nationwide MECC initiative is led by NHS England and Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (formerly known as Public Health England).
There are various MECC training models to choose from:
- An e-learning MECC module (approximately one hour) provided by NHS England
- An online face-to-face MECC practice training session on Microsoft Teams with a MECC trainer (approximately two to three hours)
- MECC train-the-trainer courses for those who are interested in cascading training to their own team and would like to become a MECC trainer. These consist of four two-hour online interactive sessions. You’ll become a member of the MECC trainer network and be invited to other CPD and behaviour change focussed events. Organisations who are willing to cascade MECC training to their staff are encouraged to undertake the MECC train-the-trainer course.
The MECC training on offer in Oxfordshire is accredited by the national CPD accreditation body and the Health Education England (HEE) Behavioural Insights team (HEE has recently merged with NHS England).
To book a place on the MECC training, please email bobicb.personalisedcaretraining@nhs.net. To book a place on the MECC train-the-trainer course, please email clare.hodsdon@nhs.net. Depending on numbers, bespoke sessions can also be arranged for your team.
If you’d like to find out more about MECC in general, please email Imogen Coningsby in Oxfordshire County Council’s Public Health team.
