HTN Now Awards 2025/26: Best solution for mental health

We’re delighted to present our finalists for the category of “Best solution for mental health”.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust: ADAPT+ delivers safer, faster more effective care

Overview: ADAPT+ transformed the trust’s mental health electronic patient record to improve usability, data quality, and safety. New units, structured templates, and electronic prescribing improved data and freed clinicians’ time for direct care. Staff report significant improvements, and people using services benefit from clearer records.

What happened? A Minimum Viable Product introduced standardised templates for physical health checks, safeguarding and risk, replacing years of local variation. Navigation, screen layout and workflows were rebuilt to reflect clinical pathways, making the system quicker and easier to use. A major structural change was implemented with the rollout of 16 new SystmOne units, each aligned to a specific clinical service or group. These included electronic transmission of prescriptions, extended appointment diaries and improved referral handling. Migrating the data from the single trust-wide unit to the service-specific units was a significant undertaking, requiring the development and testing of a bespoke migration tool. The programme completed on time and on budget on October 30 2025. A clear benefit is the improvement in data quality. The number of unstructured progress notes has already halved. Electronic prescribing to community pharmacies has also seen strong uptake, increasing from fewer than 500 per month to more than 2,200 already.

Pulsetto

Overview: Pulsetto leads the way in non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation, helping people reduce stress, sleep better, and boost mental well-being. Now with an improved fit and optimised stimulation, Pulsetto-FIT makes every session even more effective.

What happened? By activating the parasympathetic (rest-and-digest) system, Pulsetto helps the body shift away from fight-or-flight mode, supporting calm, recovery, and resilience. Pulsetto-FIT has soft neck paddings, adjustable size, and longer battery life. This enables deeper and more effective stimulation. Pulsetto delivers a personalised experience (controlled via app) with goal-based programs for sleep, anxiety, stress, recovery, and pain. Each session takes just four to 20 minutes, making it highly adaptable to any routine. In a four-week clinical study of 40 participants, stress symptoms (PHQ-9) decreased by 56 percent, anxiety levels (GAD-7) dropped by 45 percent, and sleep disturbances (PSQI) improved by 41 percent. A six-week migraine study with 20 participants showed a 40 percent reduction in migraine frequency, 42 percent reduction in pain, and 14 percent improvement in mood. Pulsetto achieved 3x revenue growth in one year, from €2.8 million to €9.5 million. Second-quarter 2025 revenue reached €6.65 million, marking a 55.61 percent growth over the first quarter.

HelpClinic.com (Help Clinic Sp. z o.o.) – Self-guided mental health support with intelligent clinical assistance

Overview: HelpClinic is an AI-driven mental health triage and support platform focused on empowering individuals through structured self-help and early psychological support. By combining evidence-based self-therapy tools, guided interventions and clinically validated assessments, HelpClinic enables users to take the first steps toward improving their mental health immediately—without long wait times or high entry barriers. AI technology operates in the background to personalise pathways and support clinical quality, not to replace human care.

What happened? HelpClinic provides users with immediate access to self-guided mental health assessments, psychoeducation and structured intervention pathways based on established psychological protocols. Users can independently explore their symptoms, understand their emotional and behavioural patterns, and follow personalised next-step recommendations, including self-help programs, group support options or professional care when needed. An intelligent assessment layer supports this process by analysing user inputs to identify urgency levels and potential risk indicators, ensuring that users are guided toward appropriate forms of support. For clinicians, HelpClinic generates structured case summaries and progress insights, reducing administrative workload and enabling more focused therapeutic work. By shifting the initial mental health journey toward accessible self-help and early intervention, HelpClinic significantly reduces system bottlenecks, shortens time to first support, and increases engagement. Early results show higher completion rates of self-guided interventions and a reduction in clinician administrative time by up to 30%, improving both user experience and care efficiency.