 One in four of us will be affected by mental health at some stage in our life, so when this auditorium was full this morning it was probably like 30 people in here roughly or so, probably more like 15 and a half now or something like that. So at the moment in the last kind of 12 months there have been 200, well a quarter of a million people have been signed off from work due to mental health conditions. 40% of the total disability benefit in this country comes from people suffering or people with mental health conditions and that's the highest in Europe currently. I like this comparison so mental health conditions are estimated across the UK economy roughly 70 billion pounds a year and there was a much lauded kind of report that came out by the design council last week that said the contribution of the design economy is 71.7 billion so I thought it was quite a nice relationship between the two of this kind of lost capacity or lost ingenuity that exists within the communities. So why am I talking about this? About 10, 11 years ago a very close family member suffered a very large breakdown and was unable to work pretty much for six years. He was able to return immediately to work but it was always triggers and other things out of that workplace that meant it recessed back to a position where he was unable to. And so he eventually took the brave decision of leaving employment to kind of see what could be done and eventually I can say kind of 10 years on he's now been in full working employed for the last four years and he's doing very well and a lot of that was to do with the confidence he took from finding a new vocation that was more suited to what he wanted to do and how his life needed to be. But I was very aware of the effects this had on the family, the wider family, his friendship groups but also the impact financially on my parents and also the emotional support and relationship troubles that caused and how that affected the wider family. So in the last two years we've been really fortunate to work with MIND and we've built a knowledge platform for them called Open Hub and it's given us a really kind of great insight into the amazing work that they've done across the country in terms of helping people suffering from mental health conditions. And so this kind of stimulated the idea of what can we do with data, what can we do to help people understand the possibilities of getting back into work or helping themselves return to work. And so we've come up with Plexus and so it launched today and so you can find it at plexus.support and what is Plexus? So Plexus is hopefully at the moment it's an aggregator of data that will help people who come to it, find comfort, find support, find new opportunities, find confidence, find direction and also potentially also find support in terms of their legal position and what their employer or themselves are entitled to currently within their situation. So it's broken down into four main sections, supports and services, back to work around you, legal rights and there's also a registration profile within this if you want to sign up to it. So within the support and services, basically this is split into two elements. It uses your geolocation or you can find any specific postcode you want to and you can also define a distance. Hopefully you guys can just about see searchable distance on there. And what that allows you to do, it allows you to then split into that and you can pull back results based on the mind organisations around you or the NHS organisations around you. What this one doesn't show and has been added literally in the last kind of six hours is that you can now filter by the services each local mind offer. So if you're looking for something like talking therapies then you can actually refine this down to a level where you can actually target it and understand where you should be looking for support. Within that you can see the kind of information you'd find. The second section is back to work and what this does is one of the things we found from our work with minds is that it doesn't have to be necessarily a return to your employment but it can be a return to the engagement that you get from being part of community that work. So volunteering is a really good starting point and so we've managed to pull together some volunteerings information based on locality and also new job opportunities within this and also a database of information. So everything from how to build a better CV to what an interview might be like, again trying to find the trigger points within a person with a mental health condition has to the process of going back into work or starting new employment. There's also a section called around you and this allows you to see what effect mental health conditions have in your locality. It breaks it down to show you current disability living allowance issues or the job seekers allowance or soon to be universal credit. It also shows you how many people within your area have gone back to work so we've managed to find sources of open data from various places that have allowed us to showcase this in a contextual environment around where you actually live. And what we're hoping to is as we add users to this application we've able to pull in direct case studies of people going back into work and showing how that can contextualise within the environment you're living in. And the final section there is legal rights so just in case you are in a position where you're finding yourself being pushed or pulled within the environment you're working in it just outlines your basic legal rights. It also explains what sick pay is and how long it works and what it works for in the context of this and it also shows you helpful contact points if it's got to a relationship point where you and your employer or someone you're working with or trying to work with is not understanding your position and not helping you in the way they should. You can register with this using Google, Facebook and also sign up and make your own profile. The other thing we have done is we've made it free to access so you don't have to sign up if you don't want to because obviously we don't want to block people straight away from accessing the information on here. So there's some of the bits and pieces of data that we've used. So the top set there are various open data sources. The NHS was a really interesting resource in terms of the kind of things you could drill down into even down to the start rating of breakfasts which was quite interesting in terms of the hospital you wanted to stay in or use. But it's been a really interesting kind of like I said 8, 9, 10 weeks of trying to find data and trying to work out how that data can fit in really kind of in a positive way to benefit what people are trying to see and what trying to do. So where are we going next? Sorry I should have put that slide up first. Centered. So this is where we see the second part of Plexus coming from and so this is more of a, I don't like the phrase, but gamification of yourself and how you are. So what we're looking to do is users who register with the application will be able to start selecting key metrics that are specific to them. So the four I've listed here may be environment, working hours, communication with management and commute. Each of these will be specific trigger policies or parts upon themselves that will cause stress or cause issues to happen within the workplace environment. And so what these will do then they'll be mapped onto your phone and over time they'll change depending on your interactions with the phone and how you work with it. And so what we're hoping, hang on that's not good. That wasn't meant to happen. That's meant to go. Okay sorry we got a little bit, let me just go back to here. So as these change through users will interact with these elements here and they will change in position. And what these metrics will do is eventually they will allow you to see what you need to do or where you need to react. So for example if the environmental one moves that you realise that your environment that you're actually working in may be best suited and you need to make adjustments or elements like that. We expect there to be three ways of being able to use this so you can use it as an individual, use it as an employer and as an employee within this to build a relationship so the employer understands where you're coming from. We're also hoping that this can be used beyond this and it's not just for people with mental health conditions but it actually can be used from the wider public because they want to actually manage their own lives and see how their relationship to stress and trigger points within their lives and how their work-life balance is currently situated. And then what we think will be the really interesting part of this is that you'll actually be able to manage it over a period of time so not only on a daily basis you'll only be able to do it over seven days over a month or three months. And it'll give you a really interesting diagnostic of how you are within your workplace and how you are with your work-life balance. Each of the metrics will then feed back specifically so you'll be able to see what's going on and why it's changed and also what introductions or what things you can put into the platform to help you realign these elements and make them as strong and as balanced as you possibly can do. As part of that you'll also be able to get an achievement badge so I'm not sure the graphics are right at the moment but it's something we're working on currently. But each of these will be tied into specific actions or elements that you're working on or playing with within the application and again each of these will be unlocked. I haven't got it on today which is pretty ironic but I've been obsessed with my Fitbit and the fact that I've walked across in Serengeti is quite an interesting landmark for me in terms of the way I use that kind of technology. And I thought it had a kind of really interesting resonance with how it could potentially work as a confidence boost or a relationship to how you're feeling within your employment situation. What's next? We are looking at trying to get additional investment into this in the last few days. We found out that we've been shortlisted for the Design Council's MedTech Southeast and also got interviews coming up with BGV to hopefully become part of their new cohort as long as I'm not jinxing it. We're intending to build additional clinical partnerships with individuals who can help us to kind of inlay more contextual information within the central element. We're going to continue to build our user network. We want to release this data as open data so what we're hoping is eventually what you'll be able to see or do is that people in the northwest are currently struggling with environmental issues in the workplace and it's a big trigger for why there are so many people in the northwest currently out of work through mental health conditions and we think there's some real kind of value in the data that can be generated through that. And also, and you mentioned earlier, we want to continue to work with mine and we're hoping that eventually we should be able to release some open data with them within the coming months. Thank you very much for listening. I've been mine Vals. Cheers. Thank you, Martin. Do we have any, I just want to say actually, we really think this is a great project at the ODI and it reminds you that actually the reason that we care about data, about open data is the benefits to people. So, do we have any questions? Got a question? Hi, Ian Powling, Universities UK. Just interested in your gamification app element there around giving feedback on the different metrics. Am I right in assuming that the user would have to enter data in order to build that? Yeah, that would be the idea is that they would come in, register with the profile, then they'd pick these metrics. So, the four I gave were the environment, relationship management, commute, things like that. They'll have specific trigger points for their own conditions and they'll know those and then we'll associate metrics to those and then what they'll be able to do is measure those over time and so they will be a daily or an hourly input from the user that will require those to transition within it. No, it won't magically be able to see what's going on in your brain unfortunately. Hence the motivation through the feedback and so on. I did have another question about, Ian there, you said about potentially releasing this kind of data in aggregate and to get some learning around macro health issues. Are the issues about getting consent to do that, to get your users to consent to that being used in that way? I hope it wouldn't be a problem but I suppose it would be a case of we put it in terms of conditions and you'd agree to it or you wouldn't agree to it and so that would be the crux of it in terms of, it would be anonymised so it wouldn't be do-blogs in Humbria or wherever else has done this and so it would be anonymised to a point where it's just literally male 30 year old living in this area suffering from this and has these things and these have allowed him to go back to work for the last six months without any kind of condition. I'm only thinking given people with mental health conditions, their understandable caution and entry, engaging with systems and so on and the catastrophic failure of the government to persuade the population to give their data to the GP so that that could be aggregated. I don't think it will be a walk of the park but again I'm hoping the benefit that they've gained from experiencing the knowledge that's on the app in terms of the aggregated data and also then understanding how that value is to them in terms of what it allows them to do on a daily basis and on a monthly basis and actually that, for me it's the context in terms of the thing I saw with one of my parents is the fact that everything becomes very momentary and actually things are not as bad as you think they are, it's just you've got no context and it's that inability to be able to see the context and being able to see something over three months or a month would give that context and I think that becomes a really beneficial tool and I think that outweighs any potential concern over data associated with that being potentially used.