Digital mental health key to tackling deepening mental health crisis
In an exclusive piece for Digital Health, former MP Norman Lamb, explores why technology can help tackle the growing mental health crisis.
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Ask NHS and Sensely partner to provide physio and mental health services
The partnership sees the introduction of virtual assistant technology to help Ask NHS users access the services during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Use of digital services leads to drop in missed psychiatric appointments
Psychiatric counsellors seeing patients online during the pandemic recorded a drop in patients skipping appointments compared to face-to-face sessions.
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Industry news in brief
The latest industry news round up from Digital Health features news of a collaboration to export innovative UK health tech companies.
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Industry Spotlight: Victoria Smith, healthcare lead for Europe, Jamf
Victoria Smith had got used to seeing only incremental progress in healthcare’s embrace of mobile devices. But with Covid she has seen a major change, and it’s one she hopes mobile device management firm Jamf can sustain and support.
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Charity launches digital hub to support healthcare workers during Covid
Health Workers’ Foundation (HWF) has launched Healthchain, a hub that connects frontline workers and NHS staff to services provided by the charity.
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Three mental health trusts deploy electronic records from TPP
The EPR aims to enables secure sharing of data that allows for more comprehensive, consistent and well-informed patient care, TPP said in a statement.
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Special Report: Mental Health
With unnecessary human contact being strongly discouraged, Claire Read investigates whether care which is entirely centred on conversation can still be provided in the midst of a global pandemic.
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Greater Manchester Mental Health trust launches validated apps library
The trust is the first in the UK to launched a dedicated library of reviewed mental health apps for patients with anxiety or depression.
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Extra funding needed to support digital mental health services, report finds
The £2.3 billion for mental health funding announced in the NHS Long Term Plan is no longer enough to sustain mental health services, a report has found.
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