UWE Bristol is leading a partnership across the Higher Education sector to improve care for students in need of mental health support through the development and evaluation of local partnerships between universities, the NHS and Students’ Unions, connected via a National Learning Collaborative. The Student Mental Health Partnerships Project is one of ten projects funded through the Office for Students (OfS) Mental Health Challenge Competition to find innovative approaches to improving mental health outcomes for students. The project runs until December 2021.
The project has developed five regional partnerships between universities and local NHS services in Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester, North London and Sheffield. Over the next few months, we will publish a series of blogs from the five regional hubs, reflecting on the experience of people involved in the project and what they have learned.