There are over 26 million people in the UK living with at least one long-term physical health condition such as diabetes, heart disease or chronic pain. Each and every one of those people will have a story to tell about how their condition is affecting...
There is a widely held belief among mental health practitioners that digital mental health solutions are not an appropriate option for people with severe mental illness (SMI). But in answer to the frequently cited assumption that people with an SMI won't...
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The pressure on mental health services in the UK has been well-documented, with demand steadily rising. In 2023 alone, community mental health services saw 625,000 referrals, an 11% increase over the previous year. This surge has stretched resources...
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The whitepaper looks at live support models proposed in the Five Year Forward View as well as digital models, such as the SilverCloud® by Amwell® platform, which have been well tested in IAPT services.
There is a widely held belief among mental health practitioners that digital mental health solutions are not an appropriate option for people with severe mental illness (SMI). But in answer to the frequently cited assumption that people with an SMI won't...
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In the fast-paced world of healthcare, finding innovative and personalised solutions is crucial. As the demand for mental health services continues to rise, the integration of digital tools like SilverCloud® by Amwell® becomes increasingly important....
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Becoming a new father is one of the biggest life changers we can go through. Fatherhood requires a unique adaptation period unlike anything else you may go through. Probably you’ve been told you now need to care for your partner and the baby and that...
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Diabetes is not just about managing blood sugar levels—it's a complex journey of intertwining physical and mental health. From the intricate balance of glucose levels to the psychological toll of managing a chronic condition, individuals with diabetes...
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Mental Health Awareness Week takes place from Monday 13 – Sunday 19 May 2024. The theme, as set by the Mental Health Foundation, is “Movement: moving for our mental health.” Embracing this year's theme, it is crucial to highlight the integral role that...
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Mental health problems in the UK are growing at an alarming rate. In 2023, Digital NHS found that 1.83 million people were in contact with secondary mental health services by the end of October. The survey also found that 1 in 5 children and young people...
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May is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month, with World Maternal Mental Health Awareness Day falling on May 1st. From nurturing their children to managing household tasks and contributing to the family's finances, mothers handle myriad responsibilities...
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The resources available to fulfil a growing demand for accessible and appropriate mental healthcare are often limited. It is estimated that only one in four people with a mental health condition in the UK receives appropriate treatment. This statistic...
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Stress is a normal part of life and nobody is immune to stressful situations and stress. Stress is a natural physiological and psychological response to demands or pressures encountered in life. Even if you could, you would not want to get rid of it...
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Money Worries is a product designed to help break the link between financial difficulties and poor mental health. To know more about the programme, we interviewed Thomas Richardson, Clinical Psychologist and accredited Cognitive Behaviour Therapist who...
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University can be a very exciting time for many. It’s a chance to create lasting memories and is commonly a period of exploration and self-development. That said, it can be intimidating, and managing the varying demands that university entails can be...
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Anyone can struggle with their mental health, but research shows that self-identifying women and girls are particularly vulnerable. Thegood news is women are more open to seeking help. Read on to find out more
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According to the World Health Organisation, cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020. The most common cancer cases were breast, lung, colon and rectum, and prostate cancers. Many individuals diagnosed...
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The welcome increased willingness of children and young people (CYP) to talk more openly about their mental health has led to a spike in demand for existing health and wellbeing services. This in turn has led providers, including CYP therapists, child...
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Stress is something that impacts everyone, yet children are particularly vulnerable to its effects. An excessive amount of stress can have a detrimental effect on a young person’s growth and overall wellbeing. Such levels of tension can not only shape an...
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent and complex neurodevelopmental condition that affects millions of individuals worldwide. In July 2023, a major study published in BJPsych Open had pointed that diagnosis of Attention Deficit...
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Everyone knows the gym is always the most packed in January, following a plethora of fitness-based New Year’s resolutions. But come February, we often see those numbers dwindle. This applies not only to the gym, but when it comes to our mental health...
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As the year draws to a close, Prof John Sharry, Co-Founder and Clinical Director of SilverCloud® by Amwell® and Adjunct Professor at the School of Psychology in University College Dublin,shares some tips to help us look after our mental health and...
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Lack of awareness of ADHD has meant many people living with this behavioural disorder find it difficult to find and hold down a job.But with the right support, people living with ADHD can thrive and make a significant contribution to your organisation.
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Diabetes affects one in ten people worldwide and is one of the most difficult long-term conditions to manage. Many people who do not have diabetes think it is a matter of changing their diet, taking insulin, and moving on. This is a myth. Managing...
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November is Men’s Health Awareness Month, dedicated to bringing awareness to a wide range of men’s health issues. As we focus on men this month, we can’t ignore that men tend to be more reluctant to seek help or treatment for their mental health...
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In the UK and IRE, there’s a rising concern for the mental well-being of children and young people (CYP). The Guardian reports that children's mental health services are feeling the pressure, with many operating at their maximum capacity or even beyond....
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The urgent mental health crisis amongst children and teens is escalating to unprecedented levels, highlighting an immediate need for innovative, scalable solutions, notably in the UK and Ireland1. While the prevalence of mental health issues within this...
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As the landscape of employee mental health support continues to transform and grow, so does the demand for businesses to seek innovative solutions. The SilverCloud® by Amwell® platform is backed by 20 years of clinical research providing evidence-based...
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Within our overstretched mental health services, digital interventions are already playing a vital role in improving access to support. Yet some misconceptions persist. In SilverCloud® by Amwell’s® latest white paper The Future of Therapy clinicians on...
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In recent months, headlines across both the UK and Ireland have painted a concerning picture: the mental health of employees is deteriorating at an unprecedented rate. The repercussions of the pandemic, combined with the ongoing economic challenges, have...
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In today’s demanding work environment, it is not uncommon for staff to experience low mood and anxiety. Great Britain’s workplace regulator figures show an estimated 914,000 cases of work-related stress, depression, or anxiety in 2021-2022. This suggests...
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As the world changes, new challenges can cause high stress and anxiety.Atteridge (2019) conducted a longitudinal study revealing those businesses incorporating an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) improved productivity, engagement, and overall life...
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The SilverCloud® platform is a reliable and proven tool for mental health clinicians. In fact, following random control trials carried out with NHS Berkshire, SilverCloud programmes were found to sustain the effects of treatment for up to 12 months...
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Digital Solutions for Mental Health Crisis in England: Supporting the NHS In 2022 it was reported that the number of people waiting for community mental health care in England had risen to 1.2 million.
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Mental health has become important in all areas of life. As part of their duty of care to their workforce, employers have both a moral and legal duty to protect the mental wellbeing of their staff. It is essential for employers to be familiar with these...
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Almost all of us will be familiar with feelings of anxiety. It’s a natural response we’ve evolved to have when we feel we’re in danger. But for some, the anxiety response can start to be triggered too frequently, without any real “threat” present, which...
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A staggering one in six 7 to 16-year-olds and one in four 17 to 19-year-olds have a probable mental disorder right now, according to a recent report from NHS Digital. This is a sharp increase from a few years ago, with the report finding only 10% (one in...
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The UK's National Health Service (NHS) has been a pioneer in providing accessible and comprehensive mental health services. However, the increasing demand for mental health care treatment has outpaced the NHS's current capabilities and resources. This...
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Although it is not always clear, data structure several aspects of modern life; we use it to predict weather patterns, structure public transport timetables and it is also used within physical and mental health treatment to inform clinical decisions and...
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Long waiting times are frustrating. The huge demand for mental health treatment means staff and services are struggling to keep up, while lengthy wait times often increase the anxiety that patients feel. As health trusts look to ease the crisis, digital...
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According to the World Health Organisation, cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020. The most common cancer cases were breast (2.26 million), lung (2.21 million), colon and rectum (1.93 million) and...
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Improving one's mental health plays a key role in the betterment of their overall peace of mind and clarity. With the various ways to take care of and improve our mental health and state of wellbeing, there are unique options out there that one can...
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Hannah Farrell, Clinical Operations Supervisor for SilverCloud®, spoke with Dr. Malie Coyne, a Clinical Psychologist (BA MSc DPsychSc) with more than 20 years' experience working in HSE services (predominantly Primary Care). The HSE (Health Service...
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Holiday parties, after-work happy hours, family gatherings, late nights spent cooking and baking – just a few of the spaces where drinking is not only the norm - but expected.
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The holiday season is often considered a time full of joy and celebration. But for some, it can be a period of painful reflection, seasonal depression, anxiety, loneliness, and more. Even people who enjoy the holiday season can experience heavy emotions...
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Substance use disorders and mental health conditions frequently coexist, as addictive substances are often used to self-medicate, inherently causing or aggravating existing mental health challenges. Drug use and mental illness may be present due to the...
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What can we do to promote lifelong lung health? Although there's currently no cure for Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), it can be prevented and treated by pulmonary rehabilitation and quitting smoking. However, there is also a psychological...
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Alongside the recent growth in digital treatments for mental health, there has been a rise in the exploration of how machine learning (ML) can be used in this field. Much of the research so far is focused on the efficacy and accuracy of machine learning...
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The term “productivity” is a boardroom buzzword on the lips of managers and business owners all across the globe. However, this mindset often results in employees feeling obligated to demonstrate productivity at the expense of their job satisfaction...
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The process of developing relatable and diverse characters to help explain clinical concepts and guide users on their journey SilverCloud aims to provide the space, structure, and support to help people think and feel better. This is achieved through...
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and to bring attention and awareness to the disease people often adopt the pink colour and display a pink ribbon in aid of "Pink October." This campaign effort seeks to educate people about methods of prevention...
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October 9th-15th is International OCD Awareness Week and is an opportunity to learn more about OCD. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affects approximately 2% of the worldwide population1. It can occur in all age groups (e.g., children, adolescents,...
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Nowadays, most people use many online services. We buy clothes, do our grocery shopping, manage our money via online banking, and socialise through apps. We also educate and improve ourselves by taking online courses or workshops. However, is therapy...
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Right now, there’s a mental health crisis in your organisation – and it’s affecting employees at every level. But despite the prevalence of mental distress and increased public conversation and awareness, it’s still a taboo topic. Our research shows that...
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When a public figure dies, it may be surprising to some that they feel deep emotion and loss for that person, even if they didn’t know them personally. This is often because these figures remind us of a memory, or a feeling and their presence in our...
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Mental health influences how an individual feels, thinks, and behaves throughout their lifetime. It impacts our ability to cope with stress, build healthy relationships, overcome challenges, and recover from life’s hardships. That said, strong mental...
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Think back to when you were a child. Writing was a crucial part of your daily routine. Whether it was schoolwork, creative projects at home, or mindless journaling; it seemed inevitable to find yourself staring at a blank piece of paper at some point...
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Depression among adults in the United States has tripled from 8.5 percent just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic to 32.8% or nearly 1 in every 3 American adults today. We see similar alarming numbers across other mental health issues and conditions such as...
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What do we mean by engagement? Engagement has been conceptualised differently across fields of study; for example, in the computer science and human-computer interaction fields, engagement has been described as the experience of flow or as someone’s...
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Mental health is not always something that can be narrowed down to a strictly individual experience. Especially in families, mental illness can affect more than one person, either through genetics or purely by proximity. This becomes apparent in the...
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Companies offering digital therapeutics frequently advertise that the effectiveness of their product is backed by scientific evidence. Such scientific evidence is critical because it operates as a key sales tool and helps companies identify areas to...
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With April being World Autism Month it is the month in which autism receives a lot of attention, every day is a new opportunity to learn more about it and how we can support neurodiverse individuals in their mental health journeys. Not only is autism...
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There are profound pressures currently facing NHS mental health services. An unprecedented demand for treatment, combined with stretched resources and staff shortages, means the gap between initial patient contact and treatment is widening. At a time...
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A study examining the acceptability and initial effectiveness of Space from Money Worries was recently published in the scientific journal Frontiers in Public Health. In this blog, we explore the psychological links between financial difficulties and...
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In this episode of our podcast, CBTalks, SilverCloud’s Senior Digital Health Scientist Dr. Jorge Palacios chatted with an ultra-endurance athlete and speaker on mindset and wellbeing Conor O'Keeffe about the importance of mental fitness and resilience...
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Is it time for a mental health MOT? This June as we focus on men’s health around the globe during International Men’s Health Week, June 13-19th, we encourage all men to pause and take a quick inventory of themselves – both body and mind. Listen in as...
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Recent digital innovations in mental health care present an enormous opportunity to mitigate the global burden of mental health disorders by enabling timely, accessible, scalable, and affordable interventions. Early evidence showed that digitised...
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In part one of the blog series, Dr. Katie Young, Digital Health Scientist explored why mental health might have changed during the pandemic, and reviewed the evidence assessing whether mental health has changed during the pandemic. She also discussed...
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In this episode of our podcast, CBTalks, SilverCloud’s Senior Digital Health Scientist Dr. Jorge Palacios chats with Dr. Brian Palmer, Vice President of Mental Health and Addiction, Allina Health about how an integrated and coordinated care system...
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Over the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought concerns about mental health to the forefront of discussions around societal wellbeing. Many discussions in the media would seem to suggest that the pandemic has led to the widespread worsening...
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In this episode of our podcast, CBTalks, SilverCloud’s Senior Digital Health Scientist Dr. Jorge Palacios chatted with SilverCloud user Eva Slabejova about her struggles with anxiety during pregnancy and how SilverCloud's Space for Perinatal Wellbeing...
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SilverCloud Research team published a systematic review and meta-analysis on internet-delivered interventions for children and young people (CYP) in JMIR pediatrics.
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In a recent episode of our podcast, CBTalks, SilverCloud’s Senior Digital Health Scientist Dr. Jorge Palacios sat down with Josh Connolly, Mental Health Advocate, and Resilience Coach to discuss how alcohol use and his decision to stop drinking changed...
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Mental Health Awareness Week is May 9th – 15th and the theme this year is loneliness. Nearly 41% of adults across the globe report feeling occasionally, sometimes, or often lonely.
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According to the 2021 World Drug Report published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), nearly 5.5% of the world’s population, ages 15 to 64 have used drugs in the preceding year.
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The Natwest Student Living Index 2019 showed that almost half (45 percent) of university students are feeling stressed by their course. Students are at higher risk of developing mental health problems with research showing many people first experience...
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At SilverCloud Health, we understand the importance and sensitivity surrounding the protection of our client’s personal health and wellbeing data. Our platform was developed with security and confidentiality in mind, and we continue to pursue external...
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Digital mental health therapeutics are well established within primary care. The provision of digitally-enabled models of therapy for depression and anxiety disorders is a priority for IAPT services in England. During the pandemic, the adoption of ...
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You cannot always control how stress affects your life or what will be a stressor; however, you can control how you deal with said stressors. Self-care plays an essential role in responding to uncertain or stressful times in our lives. With the advent...
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Held on March 8, International Women’s Day encourages us to reflect on and celebrate the voices of women across the globe. Under the theme “Break the Bias,” we are called to imagine a world free of bias, discrimination, and stereotypes. Gender biases...
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Improving one's mental health plays a key role in the betterment of their overall peace of mind and clarity. With the various ways to take care of and improve our mental health and state of wellbeing, there are unique options out there that one can...
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Mental illness is an umbrella term that addresses a myriad of different struggles within the processes of the brain. However, some mental health issues are less well-known than others, like perinatal mental health. This is a struggle that is quite...
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Nowadays, we're finding ourselves working in an era of hyper-connectivity, continuous change, and ongoing disruption. Workplaces play a crucial role in the overall state of employees' mental health and wellbeing. Work environments can give teams the...
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Mental health problems such as anxiety and depression for children and young people are on the rise. Even prior to COVID-19, studies were reporting large increases in a range of mental health problems over the last decade. A 2019 survey of over 18,000...
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People with co-existing physical and mental health problems face many challenges when it comes to accessing health care and face significantly higher costs than the regular person. People with long-term physical health conditions (LTCs) such as diabetes...
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Over the past decade, digital mental health treatmentshave been steadily on the rise to address the gaps in access to traditional methods of care. This rise has rapidly accelerated over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. There are more ways than ever
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The COVID-19 pandemic has upended life as we know it. The lack of physical contact with family and friends, loss of employment, increase in pay cuts, and more have exacerbated symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression amongst employees. Unfortunately,...
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Balancing your professional and personal life can be a challenge, but it’s essential for the betterment of your overall health. Oftentimes, our desire to succeed professionally takes precedence over other aspects of our lives. And despite the resounding...
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The advent of COVID-19 has introduced a worldwide mental health struggle that is, unfortunately, age indiscriminate. In the UK, 75% of children and adolescents are not receiving the help they need for their mental health struggles. Good mental health is...
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Most of us have experienced issues with sleep at various times in our lives. However, if you are having difficulty falling or staying asleep on three or more days a week and these difficulties are causing distress or problems in daily life, then your...
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How we use images throughout the SilverCloud platform As soon as we open the apps on our phone or turn on our screens we are immediately viewing content – content which not only provides us with text but an image that helps our understanding of what we...
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We have just relaunched our podcast series with the new name of CBTALKS where we talk digital mental health science and the latest research, and industry trends used to empower lives, break down barriers and help end stigma surrounding mental health. We...
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We are living through a perfect storm for children, young people, and their families. The usual stresses and strains of growing up and facing the ever-present challenges of studying, working, thinking about the future, and navigating the world of...
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At the recent DTx East conference in Boston, Dr. Derek Richards, Chief Science Officer at SilverCloud Health (SCH), accompanied by SCH Senior Digital Health Scientists, Dr. Jorge Palacios and Dr. Angel Enrique, together with Microsoft Research (MSR)...
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Using product principles to navigate tensions in digital mental health design.By Maria Lyons and Jacinta JardineWhen it comes to digital mental health interventions, user engagement has been an area of focus since the birth of the field, and it is likely...
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Designing digital mental health solutions is a delicate art, wrought with difficult decisions. We deal with the standard design challenge of juggling user needs, customer requirements, and technological feasibility, but we also need to maintain constant...
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The first lesson for a user experience designer is to go out and talk to your users. But what if your users aren’t easy to access? Or the subject is a person’s mental health? In the last few years, there has been a lot of awareness-raising around mental...
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We've partnered with Gaelic Player's Association (GPA) to offer all of their 4,000 members access to our digital mental health and wellbeing platform. As part of the launch Jennifer Rogers, Player Development Manager at GPA sat down with GPA member and...
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To mark World Mental Health Day this year we are sharing some helpful tips from the Boosting Behaviour module of our Space from Depression programme on how to motivate yourself when you're feeling low.
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Sunday 10 October marks World Mental Health Day: a global initiative, supported by the World Health Organisation, which aims to raise awareness of mental health issues and to mobilise efforts in support of mental health. This year's theme is Mental...
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In 2017, one in nine children and young people (CYP) aged 5-19 had a probable mental health disorder. By 2020, this had risen to one in six, fuelled in part by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has placed huge burdens and impacts on children and young...
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We are pleased to announce our new Space from Anxiety programme for teenagers (15+). This is part of our expanding suite of Children and Young Person Programmes (CYP) that can be provided to families, including programmes for young people and parents.
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This month is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month with World Suicide Prevention Day falling on September 10th. It’s during September each year that we, alongside many organisations and individuals, work to raise awareness around the subject of suicide,...
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Depression in UK Workplaces: The Hidden Cost of Employee Sickness and Absence The three main causes of employee absenteeism or sickness at work in the United Kingdom are stress, anxiety, and depression. These mental health challenges are often grouped...
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Big data can help us take digital mental health interventions to the next level. That was one of the key messages delivered by Dr Jorge Palacios, Senor Digital Health Scientist at SilverCloud Health, when he spoke at the recent DTx Europe ...
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What is social wellness? Simply put, social wellness is the giving and receiving of social support to nurture yourself and others. Your friends, your family, your coworkers, the barista at your favourite coffee place – they’re all part of your social...
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In this podcast we speak with, Lynsey Eland, a Service Manager, and Trainer at Mind in the Carlisle and Eden area. Lynsey is a strong believer and feels very passionately about supporting individuals to feel equipped to manage, understand and take...
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It’s not all about clinical or symptom outcomes when it comes to doing healthcare well. Without understanding the complexities and procedures surrounding intervention use in services, your amazing intervention, that looked great in research trials will...
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The COVID pandemic has hit all parts of society hard, but none more so than frontline healthcare workers, dramatically impacting on their mental health and wellbeing.
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In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Week, one of our SilverCloud Health service users, Mark, shares his experience of using our digital mental health therapy programme and how it has helped him.
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This week (10-16 May) is Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK, an annual event providing an opportunity to focus on achieving good mental health. In this blog post helping to mark the week, we explore our Space from COVID programme, which is helping...
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This week (10-16 May) is Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK, an annual event providing an opportunity to focus on achieving good mental health. We mark the week by hearing Gabriella’s story, a SilverCloud user who faced her own anxiety and depression...
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In this podcast, SilverCloud’s Digital Health Scientist, Dr Jorge E Palacios, speaks with Dr Ina Beintner, Chief Science Officer at MindDoc, and SilverCloud colleague and Digital Health Scientist, Angel Enrique. Ina’s background has been in e-mental...
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Background Depression is the largest contributor to disability among all mental and substance abuse disorders, not only amounting to serious personal difficulties, but also social, economic and societal costs. Digital interventions for depression, such...
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Supporting the community through the launch of SilverCloud’s ‘Nurture your normal’ campaign.As the United Kingdom and other countries begin to see a path towards an easing of social restrictions and the beginning of some form of a return to normal life,...
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As an employer, you should be able to help your employees to overcome barriers they may face in accessing the right support for their mental health. But do you have the right resources to help them with their wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic and...
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Internet-delivered Cognitive Behavior Therapy (iCBT) has shown to be effective at treating depression and anxiety. However, less is known about what are the underlying mechanisms that make iCBT to work. In this study we investigated the role of two...
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As the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the use of digital health technologies, researchers are exploring the application of these technologies in the mental health space. In a recently published systematic review and individual patient data network...
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There has never been a more important time for employers to focus on mental health: it is one of the biggest topics of discussion in the workplace and the ways in which employees are supported can make a huge difference to their lives, their performance...
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by Prof John Sharry, Co-Founder and Clinical Director of Silver Cloud Health and Adjunct Professor at the School of Psychology in University College Dublin.
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Employee engagement in a pandemic As we head towards the end of 2020, the COVID pandemic is still playing a big role in our lives. It's had a huge impact on mental health and on wellbeing at work and its impacts have meant that maintaining high levels of...
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Resilience is the capacity to face, overcome and be strengthened by challenges in our lives. It enables us to cope with stress and bounce back from crises. Resilience is not a trait within a person but can rather be learned and developed.The SilverCloud...
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Most people will experience at least one highly stressful or traumatic event in their lifetime. Research shows that the occurrence of these substantially increases an individual’s risk of experiencing poor mental health. For example, we might experience...
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In a recent blog post, we explored the signs of stress in the workplace and highlighted the red flags that employers, and those who support employers, should look out for so they can play their part in building and maintaining healthy, supportive and...
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Stress is a much discussed but often misunderstood word. We tend to think of it as something wholly negative; a word and an experience we should try to eliminate from our lives. It is generally talked about in conversation as a problem: we talk of...
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In the first of our two-part blog series to mark National Work-Life Week (12-16 October), we examined the issue of work-life balance by highlighting the signs that organisations and managers can look out for so they can support colleagues who may be...
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As the UK marks National Work-Life Week (12-16 October), we have examined the issue of work-life balance in two blog posts: one looking to examine the issues and to help organisations and managers spot the signs that their colleagues may be struggling to...
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The theme of this year’s World Mental Health Day is “Mental Health for All: Greater Investment – Greater Access. Everyone, everywhere”. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization stated:“The world is accepting the...
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World Mental Health Day takes place on October 10th this year and the theme is, Mental Health for All Greater Investment – Greater Access. Everyone, everywhere.
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This year has highlighted the importance of mental health, like no other before it. The role of digital has shifted from ‘nice to have’ to be recognised as critical infrastructure in healthcare delivery.With the inability to see people face-to-face and...
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The East London Health & Care Partnership (ELHCP) had the greatest IAPT access rate increase within London as a result of changes in the prevalence rate. Five of their CCGs were ranked in the top six most affected in London. They are set to grow at a...
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Author: Lloyd Humphreys, SilverCloud Health Covid-19 has left an emotional mark on the workforce. There is no doubt that companies have a shared responsibility to create and maintain organisational wellbeing.
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By Jacinta Jardine, Innovation Associate at SilverCloud Health This qualitative study exploring the experiences of 100 users over 8 weeks, found that guided online therapy provides a largely supportive and therapeutic experience for users.
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Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning Group wanted to increase public awareness and engagement with SilverCloud digital therapy. To achieve this, they developed a campaign to help reduce the stigma around mental health.
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Author: Dr John Sharry, Silver Cloud Health Achieving good mental health is all about achieving a good balance in your life. When your work, relationships, and self are attended to, then your well-being and personal satisfaction is maintained.
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By Caoimhe Gaskin Senior Digital Content & Multimedia Editor
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By Noemi Vigano, Chartered Counselling Psychologist and Clinical Lead for product research and development at SilverCloud Health In this 3-part blog series, we focus on the importance of protecting your mental health during the coronavirus pandemic:
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By Angel Enrique, PhD, Digital Health Scientist at SilverCloud Health This large-scale study confirmed that iCBT was effective and potentially cost-effective when offered at scale within NHS-IAPT programme in England
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By Noemi Vigano, Chartered Counselling Psychologist and Clinical Lead for product research and development at SilverCloud Health In this 3-part blog series, we focus on the importance of protecting your mental health during the coronavirus pandemic:
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By Noemi Vigano, Chartered Counselling Psychologist and Clinical Lead for product research and development at SilverCloud Health Since the COVID-19 pandemic started earlier this year, we’ve all experienced changes to our lives and routines. To a bigger...
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By Noemi Vigano, Chartered Counselling Psychologist and Clinical Lead for product research and development at SilverCloud Health
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By Jacinta Jardine, Innovation Associate & Content Writer at SilverCloud Health April 27th, 2020 - With the COVID-19 pandemic, we are living through a world crisis the likes of which hasn’t been seen in 100 years.
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24/09/2020 blog written by Dr. Jorge Palacios, MD, PhD, SilverCloud Health. In the past few weeks, the coronavirus pandemic has seen new spikes in cases worldwide, becoming again the No. 1 global health concern for governments and health organisations...
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Values are more than just a part of the decor – they should be woven into an organisation’s activities at all levels of the business. In this blog, we discuss our approach to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and why we believe it’s an essential...
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Greenwich Time to Talk, the main provider of specialist mental health care in the Borough of Greenwich, wished to investigate the impact of implementing digital therapy into step 2 (low intensity) care pathways.
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January 16th, 2020 - Daniel Duffy, Clinical Trials Associate and PhD Candidate at SilverCloud Health iCBT’sutility to those with more severe or complex needs Internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy interventions (iCBT) have been utilised, with...
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THE SCALE OF THE PROBLEM Right now there is a growing epidemic of mental health issues - 1 in 4 people experience mental health issues each year.1 £94 billion per year is the estimated economic cost of mental ill health in England.2 A long-lived...
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Microsoft and SilverCloud to pioneer AI in mental health SilverCloud has been collaborating with Microsoft over the past 18 months to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning can accelerate personalised mental healthcare, including...
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October 15th, 2019 - Sleep disorders are a growing epidemic, with as many as 150 million people affected worldwide. It is estimated that 30% of the population in UK alone are severely sleep deprived and while recommended sleep times for an adult range...
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Croydon Talking Therapies IAPT service offers mental health support to a population of around 300,000 people in Croydon.
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Advancing the field of digital therapeutics through the study of usage and engagement of an iCBT intervention September 12th, 2019 - Dr. Angel Enrique Roig, Clinical Researcher at SilverCloud Health. The benefits of internet-based cognitive-behaviour...
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What is population mental health and why is it important? What we can learn from large scale IT programmes. September 2nd, 2019 - Lloyd Humphreys, Head of Europe at SilverCloud Health and NHS and Innovation Accelerator alumnus. In my previous blog, I...
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August 1st, 2019 - Lloyd Humphreys, Head of Europe at SilverCloud Health and NHS and Innovation Accelerator alumnus Whilst recently writing an award submission, I was reminded by a colleague at Berkshire Healthcare about one of the most...
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By Jacinta Jardine, Caroline Earley and Maria Lyons At SilverCloud, we always strive to provide our customers, supporters and their clients with a seamless, accessible user experience. Listening to our customers is at the core of what we do. Therefore,...
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March 3rd, 2019 - SilverCloud Health has supported over 200,000 users to date, with 50% of those having joined in the past 12 months alone. An integral part of this service is the supporters, who play a crucial role in making the program accessible and...
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February 27th 2019 - Cross-cultural studies have confirmed that mental disorders occur worldwide. However, studies examining differences in both diagnosis and treatment are scarce and a limited number of studies have analysed cultural differences in...
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January 14th, 2018 - Bipolar disorder is a chronic and disabling mental health condition that affects 2% of the global population, and 1% of the UK. It is characterised by extreme mood fluctuations, including recurrent episodes of both depression, mania...
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It is common practice for therapists, in addition to discovering clients’ troubles, to develop and maintain a good working relationship with clients, a vital factor contributing to therapeutic change.
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Psychological interventions are increasingly being delivered online. To date there is a vast body of research supporting the efficacy of such interventions in treating symptoms of depression and anxiety.
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The link between our bodies and emotions is evident in many ways. For instance, when an individual suffers from chronic physical illness or a long-term condition (LTC), such as diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases, it can have a life-changing...
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Metaphors are linguistic tools that help us to describe abstract concepts by providing a mental link to a more familiar phenomenon. They allow us to ground complex ideas or experiences in undistorted, material reality.
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Why Integrated Health Care? The impact of a growing and aging population and an increase in prevalence of chronic diseases on the NHS has led to the consideration and development of new models of care to help meet rising demand and different population...
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Life is wrought with problems; being resilient is not about ridding yourself of them, it is about facing them head on. Resilience is the capacity to face, overcome, and even be strengthened by difficult experiences.
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Once perhaps dismissed as a concept left to new-age thinkers, the mind-body connection is now well documented by medical researchers and physicians. Integrated Care can help to improve patient care and reduce health inequalities, reduce unscheduled...
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Research has largely shown the effectiveness of internet-based interventions for a wide range of mental health conditions. These studies have also shown that users find these interventions acceptable and easy to use. In this sense, internet-delivered...
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Mental health is an essential part of young people’s overall health. It has a complex, interactive relationship with their physical health and their ability to succeed in school, socially and developmental. Both physical and mental health effect how we...
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The supporter component of internet-delivered interventions (IDIs) is strongly advocated as increasing the likelihood of positive outcomes for users (Richards & Richardson, 2012). Implementing supported interventions however, is not always possible due...
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ercloudhealth.com/uk/news/implementation-science-measuring-the-outcomes-of-an-implementation This series of blogs will explore the relevance of implementation science to internet-delivered interventions, and will provide a high level overview of the...
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In our previous blogs on the subject of the complex mental and physical interface, we touched upon how poor mental health can serve as a risk factor for chronic conditions down the line, and also how having a comorbid mental condition in the context of a...
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Through hundreds of prevalence and interventional studies, it’s now firmly established that mental and physical health conditions can intensify each other when co-existing. More and more we read peer-reviewed articles and headlines stating how depression...
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Links between Mental and Physical Health Conditions In the past few decades, much insight has been gained regarding how mental and physical diseases interact with one another. It is hard to dispute, nowadays, that every chronic physical condition affects...
Read Article“We know what we have to do, but we don’t know how to do it” Ridde, V. (2016)
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This series of blogs will explore the relevance of implementation science to internet-delivered interventions, and will provide a high level overview of the field. The first blog in the series provided a short introduction to the topic, and this second...
Read ArticleMoore’s Law for healthcare, imagine that! “Moore’s Law predicts that every two years the cost of computing will fall by half.”
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9.30am – 4.30pm 22nd June 2018
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What is chronic pain? In most cases when we think about pain we know that it is likely temporary such as a broken bone, cut, or bruise and the limitations imposed on you by the injury are short-lived. Chronic pain however, can be significantly more...
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The 9th annual New Savoy Conference Psychological Therapies in the NHS is being hosted at the Millennium Conference Centre, London between the 3rd - 4th February 2016. The theme for this year's conference is how evidence based therapy and welfare...
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Diabetes is a chronic long-term condition (LTC) characterised by the inability to metabolise glucose effectively (Torpy, 2011)13. Diabetes affects 347 million people worldwide with Type 2 diabetes making up 90-95% of all cases of diabetes (Centres for...
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May 16th, 2014 – The abuse of tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs costs the United States over $600 billion in lost work productivity, healthcare expenses, and the costs associated with crime, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The...
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SilverCloud joins the Ministry of Defence (MOD) at DSEI 2015 (Defence & Security Equipment International) in the medical innovation zone that will showcase among other things the latest developments in military mental healthcare. This will include a...
Read ArticleAs providers transition to value-based care reimbursement models, the need to redefine care delivery and show measurable improvement of care quality, costs and patient satisfaction is a mounting priority. Digital care will play a critical role in helping...
Read ArticleSilverCloud Health expands UK operations in line with increased demand for digital mental health solutions. Expansion includes the opening of a new office in Warwick and the creation of UK jobs. SilverCloud surpasses 125,000 users milestone on its...
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It is a great honour to receive the Frost & Sullivan’s Enabling Technology Leadership Award, which recognises SilverCloud Health as the market leader in the Internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) industry.
Read ArticleFrost & Sullivan’s Enabling Technology Leadership Award recognizes SilverCloud Health as the leader in the Internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) industry.
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September 25th, 2017
Read ArticleClick to Register We are pleased to announce the details for our Reading and Manchester Digital IAPT Workshops, providing insight and education on optimising digital therapy to improve outcomes, reach and access. 9:00 - 12 noon, Friday 10th November,...
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March 8th, 2017 Link between our bodies and our emotions In part one of our chronic pain blog series we discussed the psychological aspects of living with chronic pain and how the link between our bodies and emotions is not always apparent. For example,...
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The use of technology to improve health outcomes has the potential to transform the face of the NHS. Digital technology provides services with new ways of delivering services more efficiently and effectively, as well as enabling services to implement...
Read ArticleHealth and Care Innovation Expo 2017 This year's Expo will be held on the 11th and 12th of September 2017, in the Manchester Central welcoming more than 5,000 delegates.
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The event is to provide practical advice for services to integrate IAPT and Employment Support for their patients. This initiative supports and enables clients to make fuller, more permanent recoveries. From Service Managers and Clinical Leads to...
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9 am - 4:30 pm, Thursday, July 13, 2017.
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We all feel sad or unhappy from time to time, sometimes because something has happened, some other times for no apparent reason. These feelings are usually short-lived and only last from a few hours to a few days. When feelings of sadness are...
Read ArticleLast week NHS England announced the launch of a Digital Development Lab, Developer.nhs.uk to help develop the evidence base for digital therapies and support emerging tools, which can be can be tested, evaluated and endorsed by clinicians for wider use...
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April 21st, 2017 Unemployment & its impact As we discussed in our previous blog ‘Our Top Tips for Managing Stress in the Workplace’ given that a lot of us spend such a large proportion of our time at work it’s no wonder that it can have such a...
Read ArticleApril 13th, 2017 Importance of sleep Many of us experience sleep difficulties at some point in our lives. Sleep difficulties usually include difficulties falling asleep and staying asleep. If you are having difficulty sleeping, you may notice that you...
Read ArticleApril 11th, 2017 Worry & its impact on your mental health Worrying is one of those inevitable aspects of life that we just sometimes cannot avoid. In fact, a certain amount of worrying can be helpful by acting as a catalyst for us to make a decision or...
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Our SilverCloud Health team is looking forward to being an exhibitor at ATA2017 in Orlando, April 23-25.
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SilverCloud Health has gone global! We are currently offering our Space from Depression in German as well as in Spanish for the Colombian market, to add to our existing reach in the UK, US and Ireland. Many key learnings have emerged from creating this...
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The role of the mental healthcare professional
Read ArticleGreetings from SilverCloud CEO, Ken Cahill Welcome to the first edition of our brand new SilverCloud newsletter where we hope to share with you the latest news and developments at SilverCloud, our customers and the industry. It has been a year of huge...
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A systematic assessment of cCBT platforms A new study from research organisation RAND Europe, highlights the scope of computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) tools and outlines their impact on people with mental health needs.
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In the first part of this two part blog we introduced our new suite of online programmes to address co-morbid depression and anxiety for those with long-term conditions (LTCs) such as Diabetes, COPD and Chronic Pain. Here we discuss the reasons why...
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If I were to ask you if you know somebody with a chronic physical illness who is also finding things hard and who is maybe feeling low or anxious, chances are you would say yes. The links between physical and mental wellbeing have become all too clear....
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Ken Cahill, SilverCloud Health CEO, will be speaking at this year's Internet of Things World 2016 taking place at the Dublin Convention Center Nov 21st – 22nd. This is the most comprehensive IoT event in Europe providing a unique platform that brings...
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The expansion of the improved access to psychological therapies (IAPT) programme to include people with long-term conditions (LTC) and medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) is an increasing priority for the NHS and for good reason. There is an increasing...
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The importance of user experience in developing online mental health interventions When assessing the merits of online mental health solutions there are clear advantages in terms of the positive clinical outcomes they yield. However, we here at...
Read ArticleSilverCloud is proud to be a finalist in the Vizient fourth annual Innovation Challenge, an event that celebrates the latest in innovative health care technology designed to improve patient outcomes as well as improve patient and/or health care worker...
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SilverCloud Health is pleased to be hosting a Digital Innovation in IAPT event, 9am - 12pm on the 20th May, in the Jurys Inn Birmingham, 245 Broad Street, B1 2HQ. Featuring real-life case studies on innovative practices in the implementation and...
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Telehealth solutions have evolved from simple mediators of communication to providing innovative and effective care delivery models for health systems. One of the most recent additions to the telehealth ecosystem is online-delivered programs for...
Read ArticleSilverCloud Health are proud to be sole sponsor of the upcoming Westminster Health Forum Keynote Seminar: Priorities for mental health services: co-commissioning, vanguards and access to treatments.
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SilverCloud Health is pleased to be hosting an an Innovative Practices Workshop, 9am - 12pm on the 16th February, at the York Marriott Hotel. It will feature real life case studies which demonstrate innovative practices in the implementation and...
Read ArticleThe 9th annual New Savoy Conference Psychological Therapies in the NHS is being hosted at the Millennium Conference Centre, London between the 3rd - 4th February 2016. The theme for this year's conference is how evidence based therapy and welfare support...
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IAPT National Networking ForumTuesday 26th January 2016, Hotel Football, ManchesterVisit the IAPT NNF agenda
Read ArticleSilverCloud Health are pleased to announce that we will be a Gold Star Exhibitor at the 2016 IAPT National Networking Forum taking place on the 26th of January 2016 in Manchester. This annual event is an exciting opportunity for commissioners, service...
Read ArticleBoston, MA – December 1, 2015 – SilverCloud Health, a global leader of behavioral and mental wellness telehealth solutions, and strategic partner Wiley, one of the world’s most well respected providers of industry leading education, medical and...
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Our very own Noemi Vigano, Counselling Psychologist and Clinical Programmes Manager here at SilverCloud Health will be presenting at the 2015 Connected Health Symposium this week. This year’s theme is “The Internet of Healthy Things: Integrating...
Read ArticleMore than 29 million Americans have diabetes and as many as 86 million have pre-diabetes, putting them at serious risk for developing the condition. To complicate matters, people who have diabetes are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression,...
Read ArticleNew healthcare and payment models, such as the CMS Medicare Shared Saving Program (MSSP) for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), focus on value-based care and chronic disease management. However, behavioral health is not given the same importance as...
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“Dignity refers to an individual’s inherent value and worth and is strongly linked to respect, recognition, self-worth and the possibility to make choices.” -World Health Organisation (2015) As illustrated by the above quote, the theme for this year’s...
Read ArticleNHS Eastern Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) first service to go live with innovative offering from SilverCloud Health and Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Read ArticleThe clinical team here at SilverCloud headed by myself Dr. Derek Richards, Director of Clinical Research & Innovation & Miss Noemi Vigano, Clinical Programmes Manager, and also the creative team are delighted to announce our forthcoming attendance at...
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The Importance of Reliable and Complete Data Ongoing monitoring and outcomes collection is an integral part of the IAPT clinical model. Session-by-session outcome monitoring recording the care provided to patients and their clinical progress, helps...
Read ArticleThe integration enables the secure transfer of IAPT services’ patient data between the two systems reducing the amount of time spent on manual administration and reducing the risk of human error.
Read ArticleApril 29th, 2015: SilverCloud Health is delighted to be participating in the Future of Mental Health Services Conference at University of Salford Manchester on Thursday April 30th. The conference will explore the government’s 5-year plan to enhance...
Read ArticleEvidence-based online, telehealth anxiety programs reduce costs, increase service reach, expand patient choice and maintain care quality New York – April 13, 2015 – As part of their strategic partnership, SilverCloud Health, a global provider of...
Read ArticleNew wellbeing pilot project will help to support performance through promoting positive mental health London —March 2015, SilverCloud Health, a global provider of behavioural and mental wellness online solutions, is pleased to announce the launch of a...
Read ArticleNew eight-programme suite addresses gap in the market for a single, effective solution for IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) providers to treat multiple conditions
Read ArticleEarlier this year it was noted by in a Pulse article that Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services were becoming a victim of their own success. Because of their achievement in reaching large numbers of patients, they have unfortunately...
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Link Between Mental Health & Chronic Illnesses Given that today is World Diabetes Day, Diabetes Awareness Month and that long-term conditions will be a key topic at this year’s Commissioning Live conference which we will be attending we have been giving...
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Judith Chapman, Clinical Director of Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust recently gave a very insightful presentation on how Berkshire Healthcare is managing to improve their productivity & efficiency rates of their IAPT online therapy service....
Read ArticleUniversity Life & Stress Starting university can be a stressful time for students. Moving away from home and family, you often find yourself far from people you would have normally relied on for support. Establishing a new social network is a knock-on...
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It comes as little surprise that people with long-term physical conditions often have associated behavioural/mental health problems such as anxiety and depression. The stress alone of dealing with a chronic illness diagnosis can be enough to trigger...
Read ArticleSilverCloud Health in conjunction with our partners at King’s College London presents our newly developed intervention for people with cardiovascular disease (CVD). At the recent International Digital Healthcare Congress our team presented the...
Read ArticleWe are very excited to launch SilverCloud’s new brand identity. At SilverCloud Health our business is built on three core values, Effectiveness, Care and Reach, and we have worked to develop a brand and visual identity that embodies these values.
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Read ArticleToday we are discussing whether it is true that online clinical work requires direct control by a clinician or therapist.
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The Minister for Research and Innovation Seán Sherlock TD today (Wednesday) announced the awarding of €5.7 million to support 50 new enterprise-academia research partnerships through the Irish Research Council's (IRC) Enterprise Partnership Scheme.
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At SilverCloud Health our product is always evolving. Put simply this means that we strive to incorporate the latest technologies into our platform to meet the changing needs of our clients. In this post we are delighted to announce some significant...
Read ArticleMay 28th, 2014 – At first glance, therapy services provided via the internet might appear to be unaffected by geography. It doesn’t matter where you are located, if you can access the internet, you can access the majority of pages and the services they...
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A key challenge for mental healthcare providers is to provide clinically effective yet cost-efficient services. Computer-based cognitive behavioural interventions have been shown to be an efficient and innovative solution, especially for the high...
Read ArticleIn this blog, we look at concerns regarding the usefulness of online resources for suicide prevention and crisis intervention. An important and sensitive topic, suicide is a serious and increasing problem worldwide and the World Wide Web has had a...
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Read ArticleApril 2nd, 2014 – Despite great literary works as Shakespeare, people still occasionally wonder if words alone can convey the breadth of human experience. This leads them to question the validity of therapy based on written communications.
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Read Article‘Busting the myths of online clinical work’ is a new blog series based on ‘Myths & Realities of Online Clinical Work’; a 3rd-Year report from the International Society for Mental Health Online’s (ISMHO) Clinical Case Study Group. This is an old report
Read ArticleNow in its tenth year The National Health Summit will take place on Wednesday, February 19th, 2014 in Croke Park. The summit is now recognised as one of Ireland’s most noteworthy annual healthcare management summits. It will play host to key players in...
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