NHS Mental Health Workers Turn to VR to Tackle Inequality on Wards

As NHS mental health services face record-breaking levels of demand, researchers from Maudsley Learning at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) are building cutting-edge VR simulations to deliver diversity and inclusion training to frontline mental health staff.

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Summary:

 

  • Demand in NHS mental health services is at an all-time high, and cutting-edge VR simulations are being developed in partnership with Virti to help train frontline staff in diversity and inclusion.
  • VR is helping to reduce barriers to training such as access and cost, to help overcome systemic inequities
  • The tech has been shown to improve performance by up to 230%, and it is hoped that it will help speed up D&I training, improve patient outcomes and tackle racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in mental health care provision.
  • This project is further evidence of a growing appetite for data-backed VR training in the healthcare sector

 

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