Five mental health technology and service providers spanning early intervention, treatment access and specialist care have been selected to present at the Mental Health Innovation Network (MHIN) and Harley Street Health District Mental Health Innovation Showcase in Hale House next month.
The showcase, hosted by the MHIN and Harley Street Health District, taking place at Hale House on 15 September, will feature demonstrations from Tellmi, Meela, Play Well for Life, Univa Health and InsideOut.
Organisers said the companies were chosen based on a combination of application scores and a commitment to ensuring the showcase represents a broad cross-section of mental health innovation across different populations, care settings, business models and routes to scale.
The selected cohort includes moderated peer support platform Tellmi, therapist-matching provider Meela, youth-focused intervention specialist Play Well for Life, eating-disorder support platform Univa Health and AI-enabled coaching and therapy access provider InsideOut.
Focus on real-world adoption
The line-up was designed to create practical discussions around the challenges of implementing and scaling mental health innovation safely and sustainably, Aahuti Rai said.
The five organisations collectively cover prevention and early intervention, treatment navigation, therapy engagement, specialist treatment support and continuity of care between appointments.
Designed for children and young people, Tellmi provides moderated peer support with clinical escalation routes, while Play Well for Life uses game-based interventions to support emotional regulation and young people living with chronic health conditions.
For adults, Meela focuses on matching people with appropriate therapists, while InsideOut combines AI-enabled coaching, structured support and referral into human therapy.
Meanwhile Univa Health provides support for people affected by eating disorders, including carers and clinicians as well as patients.
MHIN founder Aahuti Rai said mental health innovation succeeds when organisations work together to move beyond technology alone.
“Mental health innovation does not move forward because of technology alone. It moves forward when people with different perspectives, those designing solutions, delivering care, funding it, researching it, commissioning it and experiencing it, come together to ask what will genuinely work in the real world,” she said.
“Every provider partnership, innovator and stakeholder in this showcase matters because none of us can build a more equitable and effective mental health system alone,” she added.
The innovation demonstrations will be followed by a stakeholder panel discussion examining the evidence, implementation partnerships, clinical governance and commercial models needed to move promising mental health innovations from pilot projects to sustained adoption.
Find out more about the Mental Health Innovation Showcase here.
