Mind Assured is a specialist digital mental health assessment framework developed in partnership with Mind, the UK’s leading mental health charity.
Built on the ORCHA Baseline Review + (OBR+) and enhanced with mental health–specific criteria, Mind Assured provides trusted, visible assurance for digital tools supporting people’s mental wellbeing.
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Provide enhanced psychological safety and safeguarding assurance for digital mental health tools
Built on OBR+ with additional mental health, crisis response, and inclusivity criteria
Mental health technologies carry unique risks. Beyond privacy and clinical safety, digital mental health tools must demonstrate:
Mind Assured addresses these dimensions directly, creating confidence for users, clinicians, and commissioners.
Mind Assured integrates the core OBR+ domains with additional mental health–specific criteria.
Protecting personal data through lawful, transparent processing.
Evidence, professional oversight, and regulatory clarity.
Trauma-informed design and inclusive language.
Structured risk management and safeguarding processes.
Crisis response, self-harm pathways, moderation and escalation mechanisms.
Protection of highly sensitive mental health information.
Mental health is one of the fastest-growing areas of digital health... and one of the most sensitive.
Mind Assured:
It goes beyond generic compliance, embedding mental health–specific safeguards into assurance.
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Successful technologies receive:
Accredited badge to use across sales, promotional and marketing materials
Visibility in Mind's digital health library, signposting millions of patients to relevant support
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