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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Mind Cymru and Leonard Cheshire
Thank you. Rhian.
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Mind Cymru and Leonard Cheshire
Okay, thank you. Can I invite further comments, then, on the barriers to just initiating that search for help? Nia's got her hand up first, if I could just come to Nia. Diolch yn fawr.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Mind Cymru and Leonard Cheshire
Before I bring the others in, that's what you mean when you use the term 'self-stigma', is it?
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Mind Cymru and Leonard Cheshire
Thank you very much, Chair. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for coming here today. Talking is very important as a first step in seeking help with mental health problems. Can I ask you what you think are the best ways to encourage people to start…
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Public Health Wales
Okay. Thank you very much.
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Public Health Wales
So, let's move on, then, from the important principles of data collection and start looking at the picture that you are able to see from the research that you do, if not from easily accessible data. You mention in your paper that your own research shows real…
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Public Health Wales
Yes, and in the paper you refer to research that you're doing on inequalities and who actually accesses mental health support. If you had the data, you wouldn't have to be doing that sort of research, it would just be ongoing analysis, presumably, wouldn't it?
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Public Health Wales
In the paper that you gave us—and thanks for the paper—in the section near the top on 'Public health approaches' to tackling inequalities in mental health, the first words in the first bullet point are 'improving population-level data collection', so it's…
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Public Health Wales
Good morning, and welcome here today. If I can turn to data, it's a subject we discuss a lot of the time; we know that we have insufficient data in Wales. If we look at the effectiveness of our data collection, or the ineffectiveness of data collection, what…
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Professor Carolyn Wallace, Wales School for Social Prescribing Research (WSSPR)
That's a great help to us in terms of what to look out for when the framework appears, so thank you very much.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Professor Carolyn Wallace, Wales School for Social Prescribing Research (WSSPR)
And when we do get the framework, are you confident that things such as the funding model, the understanding of how effective the outcomes are—? Do you think they will become clearer when we do get the framework?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Professor Carolyn Wallace, Wales School for Social Prescribing Research (WSSPR)
We expect it shortly, I think. Will it make a difference?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Professor Carolyn Wallace, Wales School for Social Prescribing Research (WSSPR)
Okay, well, is the work on the framework on track?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Professor Carolyn Wallace, Wales School for Social Prescribing Research (WSSPR)
And that's why the Government wants to have this framework that we've talked about already. You've referred to the framework, and the suggestion is that you think that you know what it's likely to contain, but you're not entirely sure—
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Professor Carolyn Wallace, Wales School for Social Prescribing Research (WSSPR)
So, it's very ad hoc at the moment.
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Professor Carolyn Wallace, Wales School for Social Prescribing Research (WSSPR)
No. The models are still being planned in terms of how to put the money into this.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Professor Carolyn Wallace, Wales School for Social Prescribing Research (WSSPR)
What about the funding models that there are out there? Are they mature now?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Professor Carolyn Wallace, Wales School for Social Prescribing Research (WSSPR)
What about a cost-benefit analysis—do we know what the return on investment is?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Professor Carolyn Wallace, Wales School for Social Prescribing Research (WSSPR)
Yes, carry on however you feel most comfortable.
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Mental health inequalities: evidence session with Professor Carolyn Wallace, Wales School for Social Prescribing Research (WSSPR)
You really don't need to apologise at all—the information you are giving us is very useful. We've talked about learning from how well some of these schemes have been working. What about the work that you're doing in your organisation to evaluate how…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Child and adolescent mental health
We've spoken a great deal about health inequalities recently. We spoke about them in the context of women's health a few minutes ago. The inequalities that people with serious mental illness face are very significant. They're more likely to face physical…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Child and adolescent mental health
Serious mental illnesses, SMIs, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, often first develop between the ages of 14 and 25. It's a critical stage for young people, because of the neurological, biological and cognitive changes of adolescence to young…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Child and adolescent mental health
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'm very pleased to be able to contribute to this debate, and I'm very grateful that it has been proposed. Mental health is an issue that we discuss often in the Senedd now, and that's good to see, as opposed to the…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Women's health
The gender gap in heart disease we've heard about today. It's costing women's lives. And that groundbreaking report in 2019, 'Bias and biology: The heart attack gender gap', by the British Heart Foundation, really opened my eyes to what was happening, or what…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Women's health
Thank you very much, Llywydd. Thank you for every contribution to this important debate today and for the Minister's response. This is an area that has been neglected for far too long, and it's remarkable that it has been neglected for so long. There has…
