Our Story
Our founders first recognised the powerful potential of behavioural change programmes in 2011 when they combined their expertise in web development with a personal commitment to improving their own mental health. The company has pioneered Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) for over a decade, with a unique scalable enterprise platform that deploys our digital therapeutics through a secure management and reporting portal.
The company’s clinically validated, evidence-based programmes help people take control of their mental health and manage musculoskeletal pain more effectively. We are committed to delivering high-quality, data-driven digital interventions that create a lasting impact on individuals, healthcare services, companies, and society.
We take great pride in the outstanding user feedback our programmes generate and the regulatory compliance accreditations they receive. Our digital therapeutics are class 1 medical devices and maintain international recognized standards for clinical safety, data protection, technical security, interoperability, usability and accessibility.
Millions of people experience mental health challenges and live with chronic MSK pain every day. Stress, anxiety, depression, and disability all take their toll. The impact is profound and shapes individual lives, careers, and futures, placing strain on partners and families, and creating a substantial demand for care and support across health services. Whether accessed via clinicians or employers, our digital therapeutics are here to help people take control and lead a better quality of life.
Platform
Our enterprise platform is unique, designed exclusively for the scalable development, deployment and delivery of digital therapeutics and the reporting of their effectiveness with real-time clinical data.
The platform's user-friendly secure web-based Management Portal delivers best-in-class functionality and world-leading clinical data. It enables healthcare professionals and employers to manage programme participants, monitor engagement and satisfaction in real time, and report on their self-assessed health outcomes using a variety of clinical outcome measurements at granular and aggregated levels.
Security, SAFETY AND INTEROPERABILITY
The platform fully complies with the regulatory standards for Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) deployment in health and social care settings.
It offers a fully featured, extensible API, with role-based permissions that enable integration with healthcare systems. It's security-focused, cloud-based architecture adheres to strict security, compliance, and risk management controls.
Leadership
Mark Hunt
CHAIR
Richard Latham
CO-FOUNDER & HEAD OF DEVELOPMENT
Will Mulder
CTO & CO-FOUNDER
Rebecca Millard
PROGRAMME DIRECTOR
Sarah Germaney
DIRECTOR OF SERVICES
John O Dowd FRCS
MEDICAL DIRECTOR
Dr Simon Leigh
DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH
Amy Dron
HEAD OF COMMUNICATIONS
Sarah Todd
WORKPLACE & RESEARCH LEAD
Sophie Belfield
CLIENT & RESEARCH MANAGER
Professor Lee Smith
ACADEMIC ADVISOR
Dr Claire Gillvray
CLINICAL ADVISOR
"Activating someone on the programme is really quick, which is definitely helping with wait times."
"I call it a gold standard. We frequently quote the user feedback because the reviews we receive are profoundly moving. Some people achieve a recovery using Be Mindful that would be almost difficult for any clinical service to achieve."
“What's amazing for me is that once people have learned these Mindfulness techniques, they keep using them. Receiving so many stories of participants’ lived experience is also really important. It's not just about statistical measurements, it's actually making a significant difference to someone’s life.”
"Pathway through Pain has opened up a cohort of patients we weren't able to access previously. Housebound patients with internet access are now able to benefit from a virtual pain pathway and PTP is important in their psychoeducation."
“The flexibility in the course delivery has been excellent, enabling staff to complete the lessons in their own time - and the results achieved by those completing have been very encouraging.”
“Pathway through Pain is a core element of our service. Patients don’t have to wait for treatments to fail before they are offered the programme - very often they go on the programme after just 1 or 2 sessions of seeing us.”
“Pathway through Pain is now integral to our pain service. It improves the quality of life of the patients we serve - and its improved my quality of life no end; I don’t tell patient after patient the same thing time and again in my clinic - the course does it for me!“
"The figures are at par with any of the pain management programmes running, or slightly better. The advantage of this kind of technology is that you don't have to see the patient every week - there is simply less of a requirement for direct patient contact. While closely monitored by their clinician, patients are empowered to learn and self-manage."
"Always a quick response from the administrators if needing additional support or support for clients. Issues dealt with promptly and effectively (although there aren't many). Clients tell us it is easy to use, although at times 'challenging' (in that the material 'opens their eyes' to different opportunities to experience good mental health). All round good service and value of money"
"Very easy to measure the impact and report results into our corporate health and safety group."
"Pathway through Pain is what I call 'a strong tool', one that we can trust. Our clinicians, technology and projects team have all been involved in its onboarding, so we are very clear about its value. We're really pleased to have it available now as an integral component of our pain service."