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Digital mental health technology

The Wellcome Trust has funded a 3-year project focusing on effective regulation and evaluation of digital mental health technology.

The project will improve outcomes for people with mental health conditions by enabling access to safe and effective digital mental health technologies. This will be achieved by ensuring that digital mental health technologies are regulated through continuous evaluation to minimise risk.​

MHRA is leading this project in partnership with NICE, and working with many different industry, medical and public experts such as:

  • lived experience advisors
  • patients and the public
  • clinical experts
  • academia
  • industry experts
  • UK and international policymakers
  • regulatory bodies
  • evaluation agencies
  • charities

The results of this project will include various published guidance documents to make clear the regulation and evaluation of these technologies for patients, the public, healthcare professionals and developers.

Project newsletters

Published articles

Sage Journals Digital Health, 4 November 2024
Considerations for regulation and evaluation of digital mental health technologies

The Lancet Digital Health, 15 November 2024
Building robust, proportionate and timely approaches to the regulation and evaluation of digital mental health technologies

Webinar recordings

Review the recording of our webinar from 17 July 2024:

Subject Matter Expert project update webinar

Research reports

Press releases

Updates to this page

Published 3 May 2024
Last updated 21 November 2024 + show all updates
  1. Published link to Newsletter 2: November 2024

  2. Added link to 'Subject Matter Expert project update webinar' video.

  3. First published.