To do nothing is not an option”: The NHS Confederation releases digital mental health whitepaper

The NHS Con­fed­er­a­tion–the mem­ber­ship organ­i­sa­tion for health­care providers in Eng­land, Wales and North­ern Ire­land– has just released a quite com­pre­hen­site 45-page whitepa­per titled Max­imis­ing the poten­tial of dig­i­tal in men­tal health. Some of the high­lights: To do noth­ing is not an option. If we don’t make more progress we miss a key oppor­tu­ni­ty to make…

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UK report identifies opportunities and gaps for digital tech to improve, not harm, mental health

Gov­ern­ment urged to invest in digi­ti­sa­tion of men­tal health ser­vices (Med-Tech News): The Men­tal Health Tech Land­scape Review, released today by Future Care Cap­i­tal (FCC), not only rec­om­mends a range of mea­sures to enable high­er qual­i­ty care through the use of tech­nol­o­gy, but it also shows that there is poten­tial for the devel­op­ment of a…

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E‑therapy stepping up to fill mental health gaps

. Tele­health ven­dor seized oppor­tu­ni­ty from Kaiser strike (Health­Care Dive): “When Kaiser’s men­tal health work­ers went on strike to protest what they claim is Kaiser’s pol­i­cy of under­staffing their facil­i­ties in order to boost their prof­its, it left a void for the thou­sands of patients who relied on Kaiser’s staff for men­tal health ser­vices. Act­ing as…

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