<p>Improving Mental Health </p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:58 pm on 9 May 2017.

Alert me about debates like this

Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 1:58, 9 May 2017

Well, Valleys Steps is an innovative approach: it aims to improve mental health and reduce antidepressant prescribing. I do congratulate them on reaching their first anniversary, and we are keen to spread the word of innovative models such as this to encourage similar collaboration to support people with mental health problems, and that work, then, will inform new initiatives, including the development of the well-being bond and the social prescribing pilots. So, we’ll consider the work of organisations such as Valleys Steps in order to ensure that what we are doing is strengthened as a result of looking at their experience.