World Mental Health Day 2023 – Business toolkit

The 10 October is World Mental Health Day. This years’ theme reminds us that mental health is a universal human right.

How can mental health affect businesses?

Sadly, mental health still carries a stigma. This can make talking about it tough. Line managers play a key role in creating safe spaces for employees to chat openly about how they’re feeling.

When employees feel confident in talking about their mental health, it can mean they get the support they need, when they need it. This could improve engagement and prevent long term absence for mental health conditions.

Share these expert-approved tools and resources to improve mental health and wellbeing within your team. Whether you have mental health cover with us or not your employees can also access support and guidance on our mental health hub or JAAQ.org

We've also recently launched Workplace Mental Health Advantage, and our partnership with JAAQ. Please see the support materials below to find out more.

For business

• Employer internal communication (DOC, 0.02MB)
• Workplace Mental Health Advantage overview (*NEW*) (PDF, 0.6MB)
• JAAQ leaflet (*NEW*) (PDF, 1.5MB)
• Direct Access to mental health brochure (PDF, 0.3MB)
• Family Mental HealthLine leaflet (PDF, 0.2MB)
• Learn about our mental health care pathway (PDF, 0.08MB)
• Learn about our Bupa Academy mental health module (PDF, 0.1MB)

Guidance and support for line-managers

Manager guides:

• Open up at work (PDF, 1MB)
• Talking about suicide and support at work (PDF, 0.6MB)
• Helping employees with social anxiety (PDF, 0.4MB)

Videos:

• Men’s health in the workplace
• Talking about suicide support and support at work
• Is your team burnt out or busy?
• Supporting employees with work related stress at work
• Supporting LGBTQIA+ employee mental health in the workplace

Resources that your clients can share with their team

• Direct Access mental health poster (PDF, 1MB)
• Family Mental HealthLine leaflet (PDF, 0.2MB)

Articles:

• How does sleep affect your mental health?
• Financial wellbeing: managing money worries
• Supporting mums' mental health
• Loneliness and isolation in teenagers – a parent’s guide
• Dental anxiety guide (PDF, 0.2MB)
• Understanding dental anxiety
• How are mental health and oral health connected? (PDF, 0.5MB)

For more mental health support, visit Mind, Samaritans, Young Minds or Mental Health Foundation.