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SUMMARY:Designing Mental Health Delivery Systems: Where Do We Start? - Dr 
 Alexander Komashie
DTSTART:20161123T110000Z
DTEND:20161123T113000Z
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CONTACT:Mari Huhtala
DESCRIPTION:Mental health problems represent the largest single cause of d
 isability in the UK\, leading to an estimated cost of £105 billion a year
  to the economy.  Existing services\, however\, fail to meet demands and c
 onsistently fail to deliver good quality care for service users. It is kno
 wn that three quarters of people with mental health problems in the UK rec
 eive no support at all. Among those who get support\, very few are able to
  access the full range of the recommended interventions. This suggests tha
 t better designed delivery systems have the potential to significantly imp
 act on service user experience and care outcome. But where do we start?\nI
 nspired by the pivotal role that design plays in the realisation of comple
 x engineering systems\, this talk will argue that Mental Health delivery s
 ystems that can consistently meet the needs of service uses have to be des
 igned and delivered. \nThe talk will further argue that an appropriate con
 ceptualisation of a Mental Health delivery service as a system and a way o
 f describing it’s components is an essential starting point for designin
 g such a system. This argument will be based on emerging insights from the
  DIAGRAMS project\, an ongoing research into the diagrammatic description 
 of Mental Health delivery systems. \n
LOCATION:Sir Arhur Marshall Room\, Engineering Design Centre\, CUED
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