What do people ask the Powys Mental Health Information Service?
Recently I was tasked with looking at our stats to identify some of the most common enquiries we receive at our Mental Health Information Service . I thought it would be interesting to share my findings with a wider audience. I’ll also provide some typical responses to the queries and who knows, there may actually be an answer to a question that a reader has wanted to ask for ages! Enquiries come in to our service via telephone, email or in person – and from absolutely anybody with an interest in mental health in Powys. We also receive a lot of enquiries from people outside Powys surprisingly, but these usually relate to services available within Powys, and are made because Powys residents are currently living away from home, for whatever reason, but still have links with providers of the health services in Powys or family and friends here. Sometimes we are asked a question which totally throws us – and then in our team we have to don our private eye deerstalker caps and do a little bi...