Talk: 

How routine clinical data has informed national mental health service delivery

David Clark is Emeritus Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, and NHS England’s Clinical and Informatics Advisor to the NHS Talking Therapies Programme 

Profile: https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/people/david-clark 

David is a clinical psychologist who has shaped the way mental health treatment is provided in both the UK as well as internationally. After developing cognitive models of a number of anxiety disorders which were used to develop current interventions, David initiated what is now known as the Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression programme which provides evidence-based psychological interventions to over 1 million people per year in England. 

In this talk, David will discuss how the use of routinely collected data has been central to the success of the NHS Talking Therapies programme. This will include insights around how inequalities in access and outcomes have been identified, and how data can be…