The North West Mental Wellbeing Survey was undertaken in 2009 in response to a growing need to understand more about positive mental health and wellbeing. There is increasing emphasis on the need to improve mental health; however there is little available data that measures it and the purpose of the survey has been to fill this gap.

With a total sample of 18,500 people across Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Merseyside, the North West Mental Wellbeing Survey is the largest survey of its type ever conducted in the UK. The groundbreaking research is of national importance given the relative lack of data on population mental wellbeing in the UK.