Welcoming the NHS 10-Year Plan

Welcoming the NHS 10-Year Plan

Jul 23, 2025

Copenhagen, Denmark 

On July 3rd 2025, the UK Government published “Fit for the Future: 10 Year Health Plan for England”, outlining a bold, transformative vision to make the NHS sustainable, equitable, and technology-led for the next decade and beyond.

This plan hinges on three radical shifts:

  1. From hospital to community
  2. From analogue to digital
  3. From sickness to prevention

It emphasizes empowering patients, deploying predictive and preventive care, embracing wearables and AI, integrating care teams locally, and making NHS staff more effective and supported.

Monsenso celebrates these ambitions, and stands ready to support the NHS in delivering them.

How Monsenso Aligns with the NHS Vision

Hospital → Community: Local, continuous, personalised mental health support

The NHS aims to shift care into neighbourhood health centres and patients’ homes, creating continuous, integrated care pathways.

Monsenso’s digital health platform enables precisely this shift into remote patient monitoring. By combining self-reported symptom data with wearable sensor data, our system allows clinicians to monitor mental health remotely, detect early signs of deterioration, and intervene proactively, without waiting for hospital referrals.

Analogue → Digital: Empowered patients and data-driven care 

With the NHS committed to digital transformation, turning the NHS App into a full “front door”, Monsenso offers a complementary digital health tool that seamlessly integrates into clinicians’ workflows while putting patients in control of their day-to-day mental health management .

Our mobile apps support:

  • Electronic patient-reported outcomes (e-PROs)
  • Medication and appointment reminders
  • Psychoeducational content and self-help tools
  • Secure two-way messaging between patients and care teams

Clinicians gain access to actionable dashboards, analytics and predictive risk alerts; all in the cloud, accessible anytime, anywhere.

Sickness → Prevention: Early detection, digital prevention, value-based care

The NHS plan emphasises predictive care, with wearables becoming standard, and incentives for preventive interventions & value-based outcomes .

Monsenso supports predictive analytics and mood forecasting, drawing on real-world behavioural data to flag rising risk and support earlier intervention before crisis points. Campaigns like the ECoWeB CBT-based app trials – built on Monsenso’s platform – have demonstrated that sustained self-help interventions can prevent depression onset in high-risk youth across several countries. This aligns with the NHS’s focus on prevention, mental wellbeing in young people, and cost-effective scaling.

Supporting workforce, transparency & innovation

The NHS wants a workforce empowered through digital tools, and more transparency using patient-reported outcome measures and performance data. By providing clinicians with real-time insights into engagement, adherence, symptoms and outcomes, Monsenso reduces administrative burden, enables triage based on clinical risk, and supports shared decision-making with patients.

As a CE and UKCA-marked medical device, certified to ISO 27001, ISO 13485 and Cyber Essentials, Monsenso meets the UK and EU regulatory and digital compliance standards, and is ready to integrate within NHS quality, safety, and innovation frameworks.

Key Benefits for NHS Mental Health Services

NHS Priority Area How Monsenso Helps
Community-based care Enables remote monitoring, blended care and integration across primary, secondary and community settings
Digital access  A digital companion that could be aligned with NHS App ‘HealthStore’ pathways and services
Preventive mental health Predictive analytics, self-help interventions, early risk detection, and prevention of relapse or crisis
Patient empowerment & equity Inclusive tools for self-management, carers and diverse populations; scalable across regions
Workforce productivity Streamlines patient review, prioritises high-risk cases, reduces admin burden, freeing clinicians for care.

 

Championing Change with Monsenso

At Monsenso, our mission is to make mental healthcare more predictive, equitable, person-centred, and scalable – perfectly aligned with the NHS 10-Year Plan. Our digital health platform is already in use in multiple countries, supporting thousands of individuals living with conditions such as depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, schizophrenia, and addiction. With high adherence rates and robust real-world evidence from research partnerships, we know digital tools can work at scale.

We’re ready to collaborate with NHS England, integrated care boards, neighbourhood health centres and mental health providers to deliver against key NHS targets – especially for youth mental health, the expansion of mental health in primary care and remote psychological support.

Looking Ahead

As the NHS embarks on its most transformative decade, Monsenso is poised to partner where technology, data-driven care and human-centred health practice converge. We look forward to supporting the NHS to make mental and somatic health support more accessible, effective and forward-looking – together.

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

 

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Denmark Completes 10-Year Plan for Psychiatry – Strengthening Mental Health for the Future

Denmark Completes 10-Year Plan for Psychiatry – Strengthening Mental Health for the Future

Apr 15, 2025

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.

     

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    Monsenso app used for research project promoting psychological resilience and nature connectedness in university students

    Monsenso app used for research project promoting psychological resilience and nature connectedness in university students

    Nov 3, 2023

    The two-day Autumn School event with GoGreenRoutes hosted at the Hamilton Institute, Maynooth University (October 12th – 13th), saw the launch of a new configuration of our mobile application designed to promote psychological resilience and nature connectedness in university students across six participating European cities. Both mental health and nature are currently under threat globally, yet the optimal solution may be to address both challenges together with benefits for well-being and the natural environment.

    The six-week digital programme focuses upon cultivating key psychological skills and enhancing participants’ relationship with the natural world through engagement with bespoke psychoeducational materials and a suite of nature-based activities. The programme will be made available to a range of students in GoGreenRoutes ‘Cultivating’ Cities, Limerick, Lahti, Umeå, Tallinn, Versailles and Burgas, over the coming six-month period.

    The programme development has been led by the Institute of Child Education and Psychology, Europe (Ireland) and Monsenso (Denmark), and this process has been carefully conducted with the end user in mind. Programme content is based upon cutting-edge research in the promotion of psychological resilience and the need to cultivate the relationship between humans and nature.

    Participating users of the research project will consist of university students in each of the six cities, who will embark upon an experiential six-week learning journey wherein one specific domain of psychological resilience will be addressed each week. A selection of five suggested nature-centered activities is provided in the application for each of the six resilience domains, with users retaining a sense of autonomy as to determining which of the activities are most suitable to their needs and preferences.

    Participant engagement with the programme will be monitored on an ongoing weekly basis, and the efficacy of the programme will be assessed based upon the impact noted in users’ psychological resilience, nature connectedness, psychological wellbeing, pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours, sleep quality, and levels of outdoor activity across the six-week engagement period.

    The first rollout of the programme will commence in mid-November and the implementation process will continue in the six European cities until April 2024.

    For more information about the research project, visit GoGreenRoutes.eu.

    Monsenso signs major new agreement with a European capital

    Monsenso signs major new agreement with a European capital

    Jul 19, 2023

    Monsenso has been elected the best bidder in a public tender and signs a framework agreement to deliver its digital solution to support health services in a European capital.

    The framework agreement makes it possible for the city, the university, a hospital and other health institutions in the area to purchase Monsenso’s validated digital health solution and associated services for 30 months with the possibility to prolong for two times five years.

    The signing of the framework agreement comes with initial million-kroner orders to implement and operate Monsenso’s solution for 30 months to digitally support and increase access to services for young people with mental health challenges and for people with addiction.

    Service users are provided with an app, which is used to collect real-time patient-reported information and to give self-help information and guidance between consultations. Health professionals gain access to a clinical web portal to follow their patients remotely and gain valuable information about behaviour, symptoms and adherence to treatment. This enables clinicians to provide a data-driven treatment and allows for proactive follow-up. In addition, the solution supports communication between service users and therapists.

    “The potential of this framework agreement is significant. It comes with an initial order that will generate recurring revenue for Monsenso in the coming years, and the potential from other departments and entities within the city already covered by the framework agreement as well as similar European cities is substantial” says Thomas Lethenborg, CEO of Monsenso. “Addiction and youth mental illness are both large burdens of disease and affect far too many people, so we are proud to contribute to providing better access to high-quality services in the city”.

    Further information:

    Monsenso:

    CEO
    Thomas Lethenborg
    Tel. +45 21 29 88 27
    E-mail: lethenborg@monsenso.com 

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    Monsenso participates in MENTBEST – a European community-based and personalised digital intervention project

    Monsenso participates in MENTBEST – a European community-based and personalised digital intervention project

    May 4, 2023

    The new European intervention project MENTBEST will deliver an innovative and comprehensive community-based intervention programme and a personalised digital application based on Monsenso’s solution to prevent and mitigate the mental health challenges associated with dramatic and rapid change in Europe. 

    European societies are severely impacted by global trends such as war, economic crisis, climate changes, migration, pandemics, and ageing population. These megatrends can negatively affect people’s psychological health and wellbeing – with vulnerable groups being at particular risk. Thus scalable intervention programmes are needed to build resilience and enhance self-help competency to prevent mental illness.

    Therefore, the European Union is funding the design and delivery of validated community-based interventions and innovative technologies to empower individuals from vulnerable groups to better manage mental health challenges associated with dramatic and rapid change in Europe. During the MENTBEST project, interventions will be delivered to communities in five different countries, namely Albania, Estonia, Greece, Ireland, and Spain. The project is led by the European Alliance Against Depression, and includes a consortium of 14 European partners with an extensive range of expertise. 

    As part of the intervention project, an AI-enabled app based on Monsenso’s digital health platform will be developed and trialed to help prevent mental illness among high-risk groups, particularly migrants/refugees, older people, younger people, long-term unemployed, and those already struggling with their mental health. The goal of the AI-enabled personalised self-care program is to allow vulnerable people to use their long-term smartphone-generated data to support their mental health self-management. 

    “The ambition of MENTBEST is to increase resilience and self-help competencies of people most often left behind in times of rapid and dramatic societal changes.”, explains Professor Ulrich Hegerl, MENTBEST Project Coordinator and President of the European Alliance Against Depression.

    “Timely access to evidence-based support has the potential to empower vulnerable people to reduce the risk of developing mental illnesses. We are looking forward to participating in MENTBEST and expanding our platform to provide personalised, AI-driven self-care programs to people at high risk of facing difficulties with their mental health.”, says Thomas Lethenborg, CEO at Monsenso. 

    The MENTBEST app will be trialed in Denmark, Germany, and Spain under the leadership of Professor Lars Kessing and Associate Professor Maria Faurholt-Jepsen from Mental Health Services of the Capital Region of Denmark.

    “The project builds on our year-long research experience with digital mental health for more severe mental health illnesses. We see great potential in digital, data-driven mental health also for mild to moderate conditions and consequently look forward to driving the digital intervention part of the MENTBEST project with Monsenso”, says Maria Faurholt-Jepsen, Associate professor at Mental Health Services in the Capital Region of Denmark.

    Facts
    Project title: MENTBEST
    Total budget: DKK 52.1 mio.
    Net contribution to Monsenso: DKK 5.7 mio.
    Duration: 5 years

    About the partners
    The project is led by the European Alliance Against Depression. The consortium entails leading experts in mental health promotion, resilience, wellbeing and primary prevention of disorders, mental disorders and suicide prevention, mental health in the workplace, mental health in children and adolescents, mental health in old age and experts in e-mental health and support technology, public policy, public education and evaluation. The consortium members are European Alliance Against Depression Ev, Instituto de Saúde Pública da Universidade do Porto (Portugal), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), National Suicide Research Foundation (Ireland), Region Hovedstaden (Denmark), Det Nationale Forskningscenter for Arbejdsmiljø (Denmark), Eesti-Rootsi Vaimse Tervise ja Suitsidoloogia Instituut (Estonia), Stiftung Deutsche Depressionshilfe Und Suizidpraevention (Germany), Qendres Se Shendetit Dhe Mireqenies Komunitare (Albania), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), Pintail Ltd (Ireland), Kentro Erevnon Notioanatolikis Evropis Astiki Mi Kerdoskopiki Etaireia (Greece), and Fundacio Institut Hospital del Mar D’Investigacions Mèdiques (Spain).

    Further information:
    Monsenso:
    CEO
    Thomas Lethenborg
    Tel. +45 21 29 88 27
    E-mail: lethenborg@monsenso.com 

    Certified Adviser:
    Norden CEF A/S
    John Norden
    Tel. +45 20 72 02 00
    E-mail: jn@nordencef.dk

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