The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the fore existing and new challenges in mental health services, and stimulated innovative solutions to meet them.

These two UCLPartners events aim to articulate the evolving needs of mental health services and discuss how best they can be met during the pandemic and beyond.

The first event will cover the theme of community care and the second event will cover acute and crisis mental health care:

· Monday 9th November 10:00am – 12:30pm: Innovation in Mental Health Services - Community and place-based care

· Monday 16th November 10:00 am – 12:30 pm: Innovation in Mental Health Services - Acute and emergency based care.

A key objective for UCLPartners is to improve health and care in mental health and deliver evidence-based solutions for our population. As part of our mental health and behaviour change programme and, together with national and regional partners in the NHS, we are working with innovators and partners to address critical system needs through technology and service innovation.

Two events, two themes: community & acute and emergency based care

Both events will open with key note presentations from Tim Kendall, National Clinical Director for Mental Health NHS England, Peter Fonagy, UCLPartners Programme Director Mental Health and Behaviour Change and Paul Farmer, CEO of Mind.

On Monday 9 November there will be presentations on innovations in mental health that have been implemented in community care and on Monday 16 November there will be presentations on innovations in acute and crisis management settings.

Events will feature insights from key opinion leaders, NHS digital leads, other stakeholders and industry on the challenges in mental health services and how technology can support transformation.

The events will also feature panel discussions around accelerating adoption to meet current and future challenges.

Identifying opportunities for collaboration

The outcome of these two engaging events will be to identify opportunities and areas of focus that programme leads and innovators can take forward with support from the UCLPartners team.

We very much hope you can join us and be involved with this collaboration of NHS stakeholders and industry as part of the UCLPartners mental health and behaviour change programme and the work of the UCLPartners Commercial & Innovation team.

Delegates are encouraged to attend either or both events, depending on your interest in community or acute mental health services.

Both events on Monday 9th November and Monday 16th November will run from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm. The zoom line is open for participants at 9:55 am. The events will include:

· Keynote presentations from Tim Kendall, Peter Fonagy and Paul Farmer, followed by panel discussion with speakers.

· A series of case study presentations from NHS Trusts and companies on innovation in mental health care settings (focussed on community care on 9th November and acute care on 16th November), followed by Q&A with contributors.

· Final sessions on accelerating technology adoption to meet community mental health service challenges (9th November) and how interoperability will transform mental health services (16th November).

Events close 12:30pm.

Challenges and solutions in NHS mental health services