Let's hear it for men's health and wellbeing - mental health summary
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This is a summary report by Healthwatch Calderdale and Healthwatch Kirklees. The project is about men's health in the two areas. This report focuses on mental health.
A total of 318 men were heard from as part of this work through a variety of methods.
Several things were mentioned that might be useful:
- More access to a variety of community groups specifically for men.
- Access support from community based mental health team to help men eat healthily.
- Access support from Social Prescribing service
- More help for low level support and more opportunties just to talk to someone.
- Being able to access the adult Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) pathway in a more timely way.
There are no recommendations in this report.
There are no follow up actions in this report. However it is part of a wider project on this topic area.