Helping Rochdale residents to thrive with good mental health

Mental Health Awareness Week, 8-14 May 2017

Residents in Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale are being supported to look after their mental health as part of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week.

Mental Health Awareness Week is a national initiative led by the Mental Health Foundation. The theme for 2017 is ‘surviving or thriving’, looking at why too few of us are thriving with good mental health.

In the Rochdale borough, local mental health services provider, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, is supporting the campaign. The Trust has planned a week of activity designed to raise awareness of local services that can help people with problems and support people to improve their mental health and emotional wellbeing.

Dr Henry Ticehurst, Medical Director at Pennine Care, said: “As a provider of mental health services, Pennine Care has a part to play in starting conversations about good mental health. It is our job to support patients, the wider public and, of course, our 5,500 employees.

“It’s really important to get people thinking more about what we can all do to improve our mental health. That’s why Mental Health Awareness Week is such a good initiative. The Mental Health Foundation’s theme this year shifts the focus away from mental ill-health to explore how we can thrive in life with good mental health and we’d encourage everyone to spend some time this week thinking about how you can look after your mental health.”