This session was delivered as a webinar via Teams on Tuesday 8 April 2025
This session was part of our SMD Learning Series.
This webinar looked at using patient and activity data, that is already collected, to identify severe and multiple disadvantage (SMD) and to analyse how people experiencing multiple barriers to successful outcomes access mental health support.
Methodology, findings and proposed actions were shared, as well as providing recommendations on how you can replicate this work within your own organisation.
SMD is difficult to identify and hard to formulate a consistent approach to. This work aims to start the conversation of why SMD matters and the ways we can collectively identify how vulnerable people move through support structures across the system.
Presenters:
- Sam Beard is an Advanced Data Analyst whose role is hosted by the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB. He works with the Changing Futures programme to identify those experiencing SMD and produce relevant and actionable insight across as many system partners as possible.
- Lori Edwards Suárez is a Principal Mental Health Transformation Analyst with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Lori has worked as a dedicated mental health analyst since graduating university, initially for Liaison Psychiatry but now covers widely across Mental Health Transformation and Public Health. Recently, this has incorporated understanding SMD in mental health pathways.
- Laurie Hare Duke is a Public Health Data Analyst within Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and has a background in mental health research. He has been involved in profiling SMD patients within the Trust.
Materials available to download:
Presentation slides (File type: pdf. Size: 858KB)
A recording of the live webinar is available to watch via YouTube. Length: 1 hour 10 minutes.
Watch the video now (click to launch the video in YouTube)