Plexus is a digital platform that provides tools and resources to help people manage mental health conditions. It offers support services, opportunities to return to work, information about local impact of mental health issues, legal rights information, and a user account system. The platform aims to help users through interactive tools that provide suggestions based on their interactions. It will track user progress through achievement badges and aggregate data could be released as open data in the future. Plexus seeks further investment and partnerships to expand its offerings.

1. Plexus: helping people
manage mental health
conditions

2. 1 in 4 people
will be affected
by mental health

3. 254K people in the UK
with mental health conditions
have been signed off from work
in the last 12 months

4. 40% of disability benefit
claims annually are related to MHC
the highest recorded in Europe.

5. MHC cost the economy
an estimated £70bn a year
£71.7bn of value that design
contributes to the UK.

6. Our experience
Experienced MHC first hand
Six years to return to work
Possible after leaving their employer
Effects on family friendship group
Financial, emotional, social & psychological.

7. Creation of OpenHub
knowledge platform
Working on open data releases
for their network data
M/A partnership with Mind

8. plexus.support

9. around you
Plexus sections:
• Support and services
• Back to work
• Around you
• Legal rights
• Registration

10. Support & services:
• Shows Mind services closest to you
• Filterable by the services offered
• Shows NHS support near you
• Use GPS or manual added postcode
support & services
enter my postcode
searchable distance
use my location

11. Support & services:
• Shows Mind services closest to you
• Filterable by the services offered
• Shows NHS support near you
• Use GPS or manual added postcode
support & services
Mind / NHS
Lambeth & Southwark Mind
4th Floor
336 Brixton Road
London SW9 7AA
Opening hours: Office Hours - Monday to
Friday: 10am - 5pm
phone email website
current: SE1 6JR

12. Support & services:
• Shows Mind services closest to you
• Filterable by the services offered
• Shows NHS support near you
• Use GPS or manual added postcode
Lambeth & Southwark Mind
4th Floor
336 Brixton Road
London SW9 7AA
Services provided
• Drop in
• Information services
• Self help groups
• Support groups
• Volunteer opportunities
Lambeth & Southwark Mind is run by
mental health service users and survivors.
Their services include a Friday afternoon
drop in service and an online and paper
directory of organisations, services and
projects - local, London-wide and national -
for people with experience of any kind of
emotional distress or mental health issues,
their families, partners and friends.
Opening hours: Office Hours - Monday to
Friday: 10am - 5pm
phone email website
Mind / NHS
current: SE1 6JR
support & services

13. Back to work:
• Shows volunteering and job opportunities
• Outlines returning to work
• Helps you apply for jobs
• Shows what can help your health and
happiness
back to work
enter my postcode
searchable distance
use my location

14. Back to work:
• Shows volunteering and job opportunities
• Outlines returning to work
• Helps you apply for jobs
• Shows what can help your health and
happinessview
Summer Holiday Volunteers -
Day Centre Assistants
Age UK Lewisham and Southwark
London, SE1 1QQ
8 Jul 2015 - 2 Dec 2015
current: SE1 6JR
back to work
volunteering new w
current: SE1 6JR

15. Back to work:
• Shows volunteering and job opportunities
• Outlines returning to work
• Helps you apply for jobs
• Shows what can help your health &
happiness
the interview
undertstanding job ads
undertstanding job ads
back to work
work application guidance
Your personal details
cv advise
You should include your name, address and
contact details.
It's up to you whether you include your age,
marital status and nationality. Recruiters should
be able to make a decision about your skills
and abilities without this information.
If you’re adding your email address to your
contact details make sure that it sounds profes-
sional and creates the right impression. You
may also want to add a link to a professional
social media website like LinkedIn. If you do,
check that the website shows you in a positive
light and doesn’t contain anything you wouldn’t
want an employer to see.

16. Around you:
• Shows current effect MHC has on your locality
• Shows current DLA details
(local, regional and national)
• Shows current JSA details
(local, regional and national)
• Case studies
select a region
use my location
around you

17. Around you:
• Shows current effect MHC has on your locality
• Shows current DLA details
(local regional and national)
• Shows current JSA details
(local regional and national)
• Case studies
Your region Southwark has 8900 people
currenty not able to work due to Mental
Health related issues, who have been
unable to works for the more than the past
12 months. This equates to 1.08% of the
UK’s total number
discover support services
in your local area
current: London SE1 6JR
around you

18. Legal rights:
• Outline a person’s legal rights
• Explains sick pay
• Helpful link and points of contact
Your rights
Aftercare under section 117 of the
Mental Health Act
A brief legal guide to aftercare, including
details of where you can go for further
information or support.
Clinical Negligence
A brief legal guide to clinical negligence,
including details of where you can go for
further information or support.
Community care and aftercare
Answers some of the common questons
about community care and aftercare and
explains the options available.
Complaining about health and social
care
This legal briefing summarises the law on
confidential information and the principles
under which such information may be
disclosed under the Data Protection Act
1998.
Consent to treatment
Answers some of the common questions
about consent to medical treatment and
explains the options available.
Context

19. User accounts:
• Register using Google or Facebook
• Create personal account
• Will link to achievements badges
Profile
sign into your profile
create your profile

20. User accounts:
• Register using Google or Facebook
• Create personal account
• Will link to achievements badges
Profile
my details
Achiv
name
Martin Vowles
username
martininma
email
deaftype@yahoo.com
phone number
+44 2089684640
location
brent
gender
male

21. Open data sets used
Other data used

22. Plexus: what’s next

24. Centred:
User selects 4 metrics (e.g.)
• Environment
• Working hours
• Communication with management
• Commute
Maps four key metrics as circles
Centred within the screen
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Centred:
User interactions with the
various tools and resources
affect the positions of
each metric

26. centered
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Centred:
Will be useable in 3 modes:
• Individual
• Employee
• Employer

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Centred:
Will not just be for people with
existing MHC
Also a platform for anyone to gauge
their work life balance and where
their time could be focused

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Centred can be viewed
over multiple time periods
• Daily
• Weekly
• Monthly
• Three monthly

29. centered
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Current view: seven days
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Centred can be viewed
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• Daily
• Weekly
• Monthly
• Three monthly

30. centered
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Current view: one month
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Centred can be viewed
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• Daily
• Weekly
• Monthly
• Three monthly

31. centered
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Current view: three months
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Centred can be viewed
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• Daily
• Weekly
• Monthly
• Three monthly

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Actions to be taken
Suggestions & resolutions
• Each metric will feedback to the user
• Suggestions of tasks or activities to
realign each element
•Will cross reference the knowledge
base already on the platform
• Push notifications to keep everyone
aware and engaged

33. Achievement badges:
• Users gain for interactions with Plexus
• Require user account to have been created
• Mark milestones or areas of knowledge gained
• Results will form part of our open data

34. Plexus future
Additional investment
Building clinical partnerships
Building user network
Release of own open data
Completion of work with Mind
to release their data

35. Thanks for listening
Martin Vowles
cofounder of M/A
martin@ma-work.co.uk
@martininma