Published Mental Health Needs Assessment - Find a freedom of information request

1. Have you published a Mental Health Needs Assessment?

i. If yes, in what year was this published? (Please provide sources for this information, such as links or copies)

ii. If yes, does it make specific reference to older people*?

iii. If yes, do these references relate to:

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Other (please specify)

 *By which we mean people aged 65 and over

1. Yes Lincolnshire County Council have published a Mental Health Needs assessment. The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment is an online public resource on the Lincolnshire Research Observatory and includes a topic on Mental Health (Adults).  This JSNA topic was last updated in December 2018 and is due to be updated again in early 2020.

Also included on the JSNA topic pages are links to two Mental Illness Health Needs Assessments for Lincolnshire published in 2014 and 2016

i) See Response 1

ii) The 2016 HNA includes data and analysis on adults aged 16 to 75+.

iii)

• Depression -Yes
•  Anxiety- Please see below

Other (please specify) -

• Common mental health disorders
• Depression
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Suicide
• Self Harm
• Psychoses
• Antisocial behaviour / broader personality disorders
• Attention deficit hypertension disorder
• Eating disorders
• Mental Illness due to Psychoactive Substance abuse
• Gambling