YoungMinds partners with Digital Health Passport to co-create new mental health and wellbeing features for young people

YoungMinds, the UK’s leading youth mental health charity, has partnered with Digital Health Passport, an NHS-supported platform that helps young people manage long-term health conditions and wellbeing. Together, they will co-design a new suite of mental health and holistic wellbeing features shaped directly by young people, parents and carers. 

Supported by the NHS Innovation Accelerator, the Digital Health Passport is a single app that helps young people track symptoms, mood, sleep and daily routines, build personalised care plans, and learn through step-by-step content created with trusted organisations. Initially focused on asthma and allergy care, with nearly 10,000 families using it to help improve their asthma symptoms, the platform is expanding into epilepsy care and holistic wellbeing based on what young people say they need most. 

“At YoungMinds, we know that mental health and physical health are deeply connected, especially for young people living with long-term conditions. We’re excited to partner with Tiny Medical Apps to help make sure emotional wellbeing is part of the picture from the start. By working together to co-design new features and signpost trusted support on the Digital Health Passport, we hope to make it easier for young people to get the help they need, when they need it.”

Abigail Ampofo, Interim Chief Executive at YoungMinds

The partnership marks a significant step in bringing together a major youth mental health charity with an NHS-backed digital innovation, ensuring clinical safety, evidence-based content and genuine co-design. YoungMinds will act as the expert content partner, while the Digital Health Passport team will lead on design and user experience, building on their established co-production model with young people, families and clinical specialists. 

Co-creating with young people

From January to March, a dedicated youth advisory panel will shape the development of new mental health and wellbeing tools within the app. Workshops will explore: 

• How young people want to track their mood, energy and routines 

• The right language and tone for mental health content 

• Which features help reduce stigma rather than reinforce it 

• Accessibility needs and personalisation options. 

Parents and carers will also take part in separate sessions focusing on privacy, information-sharing, and how digital tracking fits into family and school life. 

Safe, trusted and shaped by lived experience 

The Digital Health Passport was described by YoungMinds colleagues during an earlier demonstration as “beautifully designed” and “strongly aligned with youth wellbeing needs.” The platform’s approach ensures that all advice and information come from specialist organisations, while features evolve iteratively based on user feedback. 

The new collaboration aims to ensure mental health tracking feels like part of everyday life, situated alongside sleep, routines, energy, symptoms and general wellbeing, rather than a reminder of illness or diagnosis. 

“Young people don’t experience their physical and mental health as separate things. This partnership with YoungMinds brings together trusted clinical innovation and deep youth mental health expertise, with young people themselves shaping what’s built. By co-designing alongside specialist partners, we can create digital tools that are not only clinically safe and evidence-based, but genuinely relevant to young people’s everyday lives, supporting wellbeing before problems escalate.”

Dr Greg Burch, Joint-CEO of Tiny Medical Apps and co-founder of the Digital Health Passport