Mental health and wellbeing strategy - delivery plan and workforce action plan: progress update and next steps

Forthcoming Refresh of the Delivery Plan and Workforce Action Plan

Underpinning Principles

Our current Delivery Plan and Workforce Action Plans contain a broad range of actions across our ten key priorities. However, it is the view of the national Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy Leadership Board that refreshed versions of the Delivery Plan and Workforce Action Plan should take a different approach.

As well as ensuring coherence with the new Population Health Framework and Health and Social Care Service Renewal Framework, the Leadership Board has agreed a set of principles for the next version of the Delivery Plan, as follows:

• There should be better alignment between future Mental Health and Wellbeing Delivery Plans and Workforce Action Plans.
• There should be more alignment with cross-portfolio work, seeking to capitalise on ongoing work in other areas that can contribute to the Strategy’s vision and outcomes.
• There should be fewer commitments, with a focus on quality rather than quantity. The focus should be on actions which will deliver the greatest impact.
• A set of consistent criteria should be used to inform decisions on prioritisation of existing actions. These include an assessment of impact, deliverability, sustainability, affordability, and equalities and human rights.
• Consultation with stakeholders should be proportionate, including using the networks available through the Executive Group and Leadership Board.
• All commitments included in future versions of the Delivery Plan and Workforce Action Plan should contain specific timelines and clear outputs.