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Further £1.9m funding for LUCI clinical platform

Continued investment will build on LUCI’s (Locating Useful Clinical Information) success in helping clinicians use data more effectively, reduce administrative work and identify opportunities to improve mental health care.

November 12, 2026

Maudsley Charity has awarded a further £1.9m over 18 months for LUCI (Locating Useful Clinical Information), an innovative clinical platform helping healthcare professionals make better use of data to improve mental health care.

Since its launch in 2024, LUCI has helped clinicians across South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust access and understand clinical information more easily. By bringing together information from multiple sources, it can give healthcare professionals a clearer picture of a person’s care and support more informed clinical decision-making.

LUCI has been proven to reduce time spent on administrative tasks, helped teams identify inequalities and highlighted variation in care and outcomes. The Trust estimates that the time saved for healthcare professionals is worth around £380,000.

The additional funding will support LUCI for a further 18 months and enable the team to extend its use of advanced analytics. This includes work to support the appropriate use of long-acting injectable medication, improve medicines monitoring and strengthen physical health monitoring.

Natasha Wright, Programme Lead at Maudsley Charity, said:

“We are proud to continue our funding for LUCI. During our first grant, we saw how LUCI played an important role in supporting data-driven decision-making, helping clinicians and services to identify unmet need and variation in care. We are excited to see how the continued funding can allow the service to become embedded, as well as extending the uses of the system and developing new capabilities such as data extraction and analytics.”

Maudsley Charity originally provided more than £1.7 million to support the development of LUCI through its Advancing Care in our Local Trust programme. The programme enables teams at South London and Maudsley to develop and test ambitious approaches to improving care, including longer-term projects addressing complex organisational challenges.

LUCI has also been shortlisted for the Data Driven Transformation Award at the 2026 HSJ Awards, recognising the wider impact of the project.