Copenhagen, Denmark 

The Danish Government has presented the final part of its comprehensive 10-year plan for psychiatry, a long-term initiative designed to secure better mental health services across the country. The new proposal builds on several years of investments and reforms and represents a turning point in how psychiatric care is organised and delivered in Denmark.

The plan’s ambition is clear: to ensure that all individuals living with mental health challenges can access timely, effective, and high-quality treatment, while also receiving support that enables them to thrive in everyday life.

Key elements of the plan include:

• Earlier intervention and prevention: Strengthening outreach and ensuring that signs of mental illness are detected and addressed sooner.

• More treatment capacity: Expanding resources in both child & adolescent psychiatry and adult psychiatry to meet rising demand.

• Cross-sector collaboration: Closer integration between psychiatry, primary care, social services, and education, ensuring patients receive coordinated support across systems.

• Focus on recovery and everyday life: Shifting attention from acute treatment alone to also supporting long-term recovery, rehabilitation, and reintegration into school, work, and community.

• Better access and reduced inequality: Targeting efforts to ensure equal access to psychiatric services regardless of geography, social background, or economic status.

The plan underlines that psychiatry is not only a medical challenge but a societal one. Mental health must be supported not just in hospitals and clinics, but also in schools, workplaces, families, and communities.

How Monsenso Contributes

At Monsenso, we strongly welcome the government’s continued prioritisation of psychiatry. The principles set out in the 10-year plan align closely with our mission to empower individuals, clinicians, and healthcare systems through digital innovation.

Our digital health platform is already supporting psychiatric care across Denmark and internationally, and can help realise several of the government’s ambitions:

• Early detection and intervention
  By capturing real-time patient-reported outcomes and digital biomarkers, the Monsenso solution helps clinicians identify changes in symptoms at an earlier stage. This enables timely support and prevents conditions from escalating.

• Strengthening cross-sector collaboration
  The platform facilitates secure data sharing and communication between patients, relatives, and care teams across healthcare sectors. This ensures that information follows the patient, promoting coordinated treatment pathways.

• Supporting recovery in everyday life
  Our mobile app empowers individuals to actively engage in their own treatment, track progress, and access coping strategies directly from home. This helps extend care beyond the clinic, improving continuity and supporting long-term recovery.

• Promoting equality and accessibility
  Digital tools can help reduce geographic and social disparities by making care more accessible, particularly for those in remote areas or with limited ability to attend frequent in-person consultations.

Building the Psychiatry of the Future

The Danish Government’s 10-year plan for psychiatry represents a historic opportunity to strengthen mental health services for generations to come. Achieving these goals will require both systemic reforms and innovative technologies that can bridge the gap between patients’ daily lives and the healthcare system.

Monsenso is proud to contribute to this transformation. For example, through PhaseV, a national innovation programme supported by Innovation Fund Denmark, Monsenso provides the digital backbone for decentralised, real-world clinical studies, including within psychiatry. By enabling patients to share daily health data from home and giving clinicians access to these insights in real time, the project demonstrates how digital tools can strengthen early intervention, improve patient engagement, and extend care beyond traditional settings.

Beyond Denmark, Monsenso also contributes at the European level through projects such as Personae (developing blended care models for mental health) and MentBest (creating digital tools to prevent common mental disorders). Together, these initiatives highlight how digital innovation can support more patient-centred, proactive, and sustainable mental health systems — both nationally and internationally.

To learn more or explore a pilot or integration, book a demo or get in touch via our website.