Mental Health Awareness Week 2023

This year’s event takes place from 15 to 21 May, with the key theme focusing on anxiety.  

Anxiety is a normal emotion in all of us, but sometimes it can develop into a mental health problem. 

A lot of things can lead to increased feelings of anxiety, including but not limited to workplace stress, the increased cost of living or other significant life events.  

To find out how you can get involved in Mental Health Awareness Week, and help increase your own and your colleagues’ knowledge and understanding of anxiety, check out the Mental Health Foundation web page to see more.  

We also offer a wide range of resources to help you explore issues around mental health.  

• Mental health in the workplace – tools and resources to help you make positive improvements to mental wellbeing in the workplace.  

• Beating burnout in the NHS – NHS trusts must better address staff burnout to safeguard staff wellbeing and ensure high-quality patient care.   

• How are you feeling NHS? toolkit – our toolkit explains the key contributors to decreased emotional wellbeing and offers suggestions for encouraging improvements.  

• Supporting our NHS people experiencing stress – guidance developed with our health and wellbeing leads to help you support people experiencing stress.  

• Prevention and management of stress at work – updated guidance aimed at management and employees at all levels to support colleagues experiencing stress.  

• Improving staff mental health with mindfulness – hear how mindfulness courses provided by Sussex Mindfulness Centre are having a positive impact on the wellbeing and mental health of NHS staff. 

• Men's health guidance – guidance to support organisations in implementing measures to support men’s health. 

• Mental wellbeing infographic – statistics and key facts on employee mental wellbeing in the workplace.