Responding to the rising burden, inequalities and complexity of mental health conditions, @LivUni and @Mersey_Care formed a Connected Mental Health mission in 2021 and helped form the UK Mental Health Mission. We couple research with service innovation: liverpool.ac.uk/health-and-lif…
MRIC.UK CIX (Combined Intelligence for Translational Health Research) is a trusted data/analytic environment for training/testing AIs and generating insights promptly with/for service users @grazulis Jim Hughes @CivicDataCoop@holmusk@MicrosoftUK@FinanaMarta
MRIC.UK Mental Health Avatar is a digital-self (combining care records, predictive algorithms and preferences) empowering individuals better use AIs, health and social care services and research, and tackling users' app-blizzard burden. @dan_w_joyce@Bollegala
MRIC.UK Innovative Therapies for Mood Disorders is developing new services, integrated with primary care, giving service users better access to innovative therapies and more involvement in the research that shapes them. Inti Qurashi @dan_w_joyce Nusrat Husain
MRIC.UK Child & Adolescent Digital Mental Health is driving new digital interventions for mental wellbeing, care and development, and new understanding for data-rich cohort studies such as @ChildrenGrowing Nusrat Husain Atif Rahman
Rapid #Covid19 testing (1): clear communication and mass participation matter: likely third reduction in hospitalisation from roll-out of community testing around Liverpool liverpool.ac.uk/coronavirus/re… required a locally-owned, concerted effort to get half the population to take part
Rapid #Covid19 testing (2): purpose-led, systematic testing such as test-to-release (daily contact testing) was effective with high levels of participation (e.g. fire crews) but ineffective with patchy participation (e.g. care homes pilot: liverpool.ac.uk/coronavirus/re…)
Rapid #Covid19 testing (3): timing matters: test just before mixing, not the day before. Rapid tests lose their value if not used rapidly. Lateral flow used at events only for the unvaccinated and up to 72 hours beforehand was futile (e.g. at some festivals this Summer).
2) Don’t assume everyone has a smartphone or can afford to isolate. People with fewer financial or digital resources were less likely to get tested and more likely to get #COVID19. Take tests to people not people to tests. Support isolation properly. gov.uk/government/pub…
3) Accuracy is one part of test utility, timing is another. Use the 1-2 days sooner result from lateral flow vs PCR to maximise 1/time to % appropriate action (quick isolation). Then PCR and viral sequence positives. Testing orchestra > 1 test instrument gov.uk/government/pub…
1/9 gov.uk/government/pub… no uncontrolled outbreaks from 10 events at same time as large outbreaks around other venues without extra control measures of #EventsResearchProgramme: more on that from #Liverpool papers later; public health × event team × audience partnership is key
2/9 gov.uk/government/pub… rapid testing is wasted unless done just before the event and results checked reliably (not reading a text message at the gate). Big gap between test and event = big loss in end-to-end sensitivity. Testing is more than a test
3/9 gov.uk/government/pub… Rapid tracing of test positive ticket holders and their friends, asking them not to attend event, and automatic cancellation of tickets is important in outbreak control - #EventsResearchProgramme identified many practical areas for improvement