Kevin Flanagan's Contact Details

Kevin Flanagan's Company Details

Co-Opts

London, N/A, gb • 5 - 9 Employees
Medical Equipment

We're looking for service users, clinicians and researchers to help co-design our product before we pilot it. Please DM if you would like to help. Co-Opts was formed by a technologist and one of the highest qualified therapist practitioners in the UK to address the worlds largest disease burden, poor mental health. Exploring the mental health space it became obvious that it is the one area of healthcare where the practitioner seems to have been forgotten. Other Clinicians have many tools at their disposal to improve practice and outcomes for patients from simple checklists for surgeons to multi million dollar MRI machines to aid imaging. However in the field of mental health 100 years from it's founding the typical clinician only has the couch and the pen and notebook. Co-Opts is looking to change that by building digital tools explicitly for the therapist. We believe that building these tools will help therapists to be more productive and also to have more positive outcomes. This is important because too few people with poor mental health get seen by a specialist. Around 2m of the 12m people who will have a diagnosable mental health condition this year in the UK will get to access professional help. Another obscure fact is that for the worlds largest single disease category, depression and anxiety, clinicians need to treat 7 people to help 1 start to recover so too few are helped to recover. There is good evidence that that number could be improved form 1 in 7 to 1 in 2. This is now critical as COVID-19 has exacerbated an already grave position with significant shortages of qualified clinicians, approx 12.9% Dec 2019. Compounding this is a government target of doubling the numbers treated to 4m over the next 3-4 years