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Purpose
This workshop convened end-users, system leaders and industry innovators to explore how digital innovation can accelerate progress against the UK’s Mental Health Goals. It introduced the Mental Health Goals Programme and digital workstream, examined international experiences of implementing digital mental health at scale and surfaced lessons from innovators working within the UK NHS. Speakers presented experiences of digital health technologies in the UK, South Korea, France, Germany, US, Estonia, Japan and Scotland.

 

The central conclusion was clear: the challenge facing digital mental health is infrastructural rather than technological. There is no shortage of evidence-based tools or ideas; the constraints lie in the system conditions required for effective solutions to become embedded sustainably in routine care. Technologies designed to directly benefit patients will increasingly be eliminated from care pathways unless appropriate systems are put into place.