Overview

• The £50 million package will be delivered over five years through the Government’s Mental Health Goals programme.
• A 20,000-person volunteer cohort will provide securely shared data to study biological links to mental illness and accelerate new treatments.
• An Industry Alliance Team will support companies and researchers in accessing mental health research facilities, data, and trial capabilities.
• A Lived Experience Industry Partnership will place people with personal experience at the center of research priorities and study design.
• Leaders frame the initiative as matching science-led gains seen in other diseases, as advocacy groups welcome the focus on lived experience and urge stronger NHS research infrastructure.