Innovating Mental Health Services in Scotland - SBRI Innovation Challenge

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***THIS IS AN AWARD NOTICE TO CONCLUDE THE PRE-COMMERCIAL PROCUREMENT OF THE COMPETITION DETAILED BELOW. THIS IS NOT A NEW COMPETITION. CONTRACTS HAVE BEEN AWARDED BETWEEN NHS GOLDEN JUBILEE AND THE WINNING PARTICIPANTS.*** This Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) award, which will fund a Phase 1 feasibility study R&D contracts to bring innovative solutions that will deliver person-centred and equitable Mental Health support and services for people in Scotland. This is a Pre-Commercial Procurement funded by The Scottish Health Industry Partnership (SHIP) and Scottish Government Mental Health and Wellbeing Directorate. The Test Bed environment is provided by one of three Regional Test Beds within NHS Scotland Health Boards. The aim of this award is to develop disruptive innovative solutions that will deliver sustainable, accessible, and equitable mental health services. The solution will support people who are not currently receiving treatment and address the backlog of patients on waiting lists and/or delivering person-centred and equitable Mental Health support and services to people who are currently receiving treatment by optimising clinical and social care pathways. Contracts are between NHS Golden Jubilee and winning participants. Phase 1 projects range in size up to total costs of 30,000 GBP inclusive of VAT. The aim of this award was to develop disruptive innovative solutions that deliver sustainable, accessible and equitable mental health services, addressing one or more of the following areas: -Young persons challenge -Hard to reach populations (people with existing mental health conditions and/or people with a co-occurring condition e.g. sensory loss, alcohol, or substance issues) -Patient centred care pathways -Treatment resistant conditions -Prioritisation of backlog Addressing one of the challenge areas below. In phase 1, must: -demonstrate the technical feasibility of your proposed innovation -establish ongoing collaboration between technical and clinical members of the project team -formalise any required ethical approvals, data sharing agreements and contracts -begin working with clinical data. Bids were welcome that bring together sector specialists. The aim of this award is to develop disruptive innovative solutions that address: Challenge A - Supporting people who are not currently receiving treatment and addressing the backlog of patients on waiting lists. The themes and priority areas below are for illustrative purposes and are not exhaustive. Innovation themes: -Supported self-management. -Diagnosis and assessment. -Digital psychological interventions, e.g. formal evidence based psychological treatments / interventions; just-in-time adaptive interventions. -Information, advice and self-help (this is not about creating new interventions, rather focusing on maximising what we currently have) -Transdiagnostic processes – issues that are present across disorders e.g. sleep, rumination, social avoidance, pain. Priority Areas: -Neurodevelopmental difficulties in Children and Young People -Able Autistic Group -Post-traumatic stress disorder -People with low levels of activity and promoting exercise as an intervention. -Hard to reach populations (people with existing mental health conditions and/or people with a co-occurring condition e.g. sensory loss, alcohol, or substance issues) -Eating disorders - Low weight/ anorexia (this patient group has seen a 240% increase in referrals since routine services opened up again following the first Covid lockdown period.) -Young people and innovation in schools Challenge B - Delivering person-centred and equitable Mental Health support and services to people who are currently receiving treatment by optimising clinical and social care pathways. The themes and priority areas below are for illustrative purposes and are not exhaustive. Innovation themes: -Digital pathway enhancements including asynchronous approaches (Before referral, at triage, whilst awaiting first appointment, during treatment, after discharge, communication between services, person-centred care planning.) This could include information, advice and self-help; and/or collection of clinical information, eg, from inventories to inform assessment/care. -Remote monitoring, including medication monitoring, collection of patient reported outcome data from digital products to help tailor care to needs of people with ongoing mental health challenges; and collection and analysis of data from multiple agencies that may indicate deteriorating mental health in adults or risk in children and young people. -Novel approaches to identify new therapeutic and technological opportunities for treatment resistant mental health problems. Priority Areas -Keeping people at home - e.g. innovation opportunities linked to the Intensive Home Treatment model -Maintaining connections with home for inpatient care Contracts have be given to successful applicants.