A £50 million commitment to transform mental health research
By
MHG Team
Published
The Mental Health Goals Programme (MHG) is a cornerstone of the Government’s 2025 Life Sciences Sector Plan: a £50 million investment over five years to transform mental health research and accelerate improved patient outcomes. It is funded by the Office for Life Sciences and delivered by the Medical Research Council.
MHG harnesses the UK’s digital and data landscape to build tools that guide priorities and planning across mental health research, trials, methodology and platforms — alongside the creation of clinically characterised, recontactable cohorts, including 20,000 additional genomic samples across severe depression and psychosis.
Six workstreams, one system
Six UK-wide workstreams — the Alliance Management Team, Innovative Clinical Trials Hub, Lived Experience Industry Partnership, Digital Innovation, Data Observatory and Multi-omics — connect discovery to delivery across King’s College London, Oxford, Manchester, Swansea, Cardiff, Belfast, Edinburgh and Cambridge. The first three are delivered together as DIGIT, the Data and Digital Industry Alliance Team.
Read more about the programme.
Source: Mental Health Goals on GOV.UK.
Events
The MHG Industry Engagement Forum launches with a one-day meeting on 8 October 2026 at the SGDP Centre, Denmark Hill Campus, King’s College London.
