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Big White Wall is a digital mental health service supporting people with anxiety, depression and other conditions to improve their emotional wellbeing. Individuals with mental health problems are more likely to be overweight, to smoke, and to drink too much, which leads to health problems. The project has developed online courses on losing weight, stopping smoking, and cutting down alcohol, specifically for people with mental health problems. As courses are online, they can be accessed from home at any time with no need to see a doctor for a referral. The courses will be free on the NHS for people in many parts of the UK, and through some employers and universities.

Pesky gNATs is a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) based mental health intervention for young people. It combines a desktop computer game and a mobile app to provide age-appropriate and engaging support for young people. Interventions for anxiety and depression and for trauma focused CBT have been created as well as a game and app to support mindfulness. These interventions will be available to mental health professionals who work with young people.

Developing Auto-Motive in conjunction with the Universities of Cardiff and Warwick and the charity Bipolar UK to support people with bipolar disorder which affects 1-2% of the population and costs the NHS £342M per annum.The system uses a smart phone app and sensors to monitor the mood, activities and sleep of users. It is intended to augment self-management programmes where the user is taught to recognise feelings and situations which may lead to a manic or depressive episode. However, because the condition often affects the ability of the person with bipolar to recognise these signs with adverse consequences. As Auto-Motive automatically analyses the data on mood and events which the user enters in the app and the activity and sleep data from the sensors it can provide objective measurements which can alert the user with an early indication of the problem.