COVID-19 Mental Health Surge Model

The Stategy Unit were commissioned by Mersey Care NHS FT to create a model to estimate the surge in demand to Mental Health services caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on published evidence, SUS datasets (MHSDS, IAPT), and expert opinion we produced a System’s Dynamic’s Model in R. This model was then given a web user interface so people could interact with the model.

The code is released under an MIT license and is available on the SU GitHub, and the model is available to use here.