Monitoring & Progress Tracking
If we can't measure it, we can't improve it.
Save Minds is the only clinic in the UK tracking patient outcomes daily, across nine clinically validated scales. You see your own data. Your consultant makes decisions based on what’s actually happening — not a 10-minute appointment three months from now.
- The Gap in Standard Care
Most psychiatric care isn't measured at all.
For most people, the path through depression or anxiety care looks like this: a 10-minute GP appointment every few months. A short conversation. A medication adjustment based on what you can remember about the last 90 days. Then you wait, alone, to see if anything changes.
It’s not anyone’s fault — it’s how the system is built. But it means treatment decisions are being made on impressions, not evidence. And it means you, the patient, have no real way of knowing whether you’re getting better.
We do it differently. Every patient at Save Minds is measured continuously — from the day of their first session through to discharge, and during maintenance afterwards. Nothing is left to memory or guesswork.
The average UK psychiatric outpatient appointment is 10 minutes. The average gap between appointments is 12 weeks.
- Our Framework
Three layers of measurement, working together.
We track what changes day to day, what changes across a programme, and what changes for your specific condition. Together, they build a complete picture.
- DAILY
Daily mood & anxiety
A two-question check-in delivered via text message every day. Mood 0–10. Anxiety 0–10. Less than 30 seconds. From the day of your first session onwards.
2 scores · Daily · Lifetime
- PROGRAMME-WIDE
Six core clinical scales
Validated questionnaires reviewed at key points in your programme — covering depression, anxiety, rumination, suicide risk, wellbeing, and overall severity.
6 scales · Weekly to Monthly
- CONDITION-SPECIFIC
Targeted measures
Two further scales for patients with specific diagnoses: Y-BOCS for OCD severity, NSESSS for PTSD symptom load. Tracked only where clinically relevant.
2 scales · Per condition
Nine clinical scales total. Reviewed live by your consultant throughout treatment.
- The Daily Touchpoint
30 seconds a day. Months of insight.
Every morning, you receive a short text from us. Two numbers, on a scale of 0 to 10. How was your mood yesterday? How was your anxiety? That’s it.
Over weeks and months, those two simple data points become the most honest picture of your recovery anyone has ever taken — far more accurate than what either of you could reconstruct in a clinic appointment. You can see your own trends. Your consultant sees them too, in real time, in their clinical dashboard.
- Takes under 30 seconds
- Sent automatically every day
- No app to remember to open
- Builds the long-term picture day by day
- Continues even after your active programme ends
- Clinically Validated
The nine clinical scales we track.
Every scale we use is validated, peer-reviewed, and used in clinical research worldwide. Your consultant reviews them throughout your programme to see exactly what’s changing.
Daily Mood Score
Self-reported on a 0–10 scale
The most immediate signal of how you’re doing. Captured every day via text. Over time, the trend tells you — and us — far more than any single appointment ever could.
Measures: General mood
Frequency: Daily
Daily Anxiety
Self-reported on a 0–10 scale
Paired with mood in the same daily check-in. Anxiety often fluctuates differently from mood — tracking both gives a fuller picture and helps spot patterns.
Measures: General anxiety
Frequency: Daily
PHQ-9
Patient Health Questionnaire-9
The most widely used depression assessment in the world. Nine questions about how you’ve been feeling over the past two weeks. Scored 0–27, with thresholds for minimal, mild, moderate, moderately severe, and severe depression.
Measures: Depression severity
Frequency: Weekly to monthly
GAD-7
Generalised Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale
A short, validated assessment of generalised anxiety. Seven questions, scored 0–21, with clinical thresholds for minimal, mild, moderate, and severe anxiety.
Measures: Anxiety severity
Frequency: Weekly to monthly
QIDS-SR
Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology — Self-Report
A secondary depression scale that captures slightly different dimensions from PHQ-9 — particularly sleep, appetite, and energy. Used alongside PHQ-9 for a fuller picture.
Measures: Depression severity
Frequency: Weekly to monthly
RRS-10
Ruminative Response Scale (10-item)
Specifically measures rumination — repetitive, intrusive thinking — which is one of the strongest predictors of relapse in depression. Tracking it separately helps us know whether the deeper pattern is shifting, not just the surface symptoms.
Measures: Rumination
Frequency: Programme milestones
WEMWBS
Warwick–Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale
Unlike most clinical scales, WEMWBS measures positive wellbeing — feelings of optimism, connection, energy, and capability. It captures recovery as well as illness. We want this one going up.
Measures: Mental wellbeing
Frequency: Programme milestones
C-SSRS
Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale
The gold-standard assessment for suicidal ideation and behaviour. Used widely in clinical research and emergency psychiatric care. We monitor it throughout treatment — particularly important for patients with severe suicidal ideation as their presenting condition.
Measures: Suicide risk
Frequency: Continuously through programme
Y-BOCS
Yale–Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale
The most widely used measure of OCD severity globally. Used only for patients whose primary or comorbid condition is OCD.
Measures: OCD severity
Frequency: Programme milestones
Condition-specific
NSESSS
National Stressful Events Survey PTSD Short Scale
A validated, concise measure of PTSD symptom severity developed for the DSM-5. Used only for patients whose primary or comorbid condition is PTSD or Complex PTSD.
Measures: PTSD severity
Frequency: Programme milestones
Condition-specific
- Real Data
This is what real recovery looks like.
Below are the actual clinical scores of a 42-year-old patient who completed a nine-week programme at Save Minds, after ten years of failed antidepressant trials. Every chart is taken directly from our monitoring app, with identifying details removed.
Aggregated, anonymised data from a real Save Minds patient with consent. Individual results vary.
Daily Mood Score
Every dot is a daily self-report. The vertical bars show treatment days. Over 110 days, mood climbed from 2 to consistently 7+, and anxiety dropped from 8 to 3.
Depression — PHQ-9
PHQ-9 dropped from severe (20) to minimal (4) — an 80% reduction over the programme.
Anxiety — GAD-7
GAD-7 dropped from severe anxiety to mild — a 74% reduction.
Suicide Risk — C-SSRS
Suicidal ideation, present at the start of treatment, fully resolved by week 5 and remained at zero throughout.
Wellbeing — WEMWBS
Wellbeing — the only measure where higher is better — climbed steadily from ‘very low’ into the ‘below average’ range and stabilised there. Recovery, not just absence of illness.
- The Clinical Side
Your consultant sees what you see — plus context.
While you see your own daily scores in your phone, your consultant sees them too — in a clinical dashboard that pulls together every scale, every data point, every treatment session into a single live view.
Before each appointment, before each infusion, your consultant has already looked at this data. They know what’s changed since you last met. They know which scales have moved and which haven’t. They can adjust your dose, change the spacing of your sessions, or recommend extending or reducing your programme based on evidence — not impressions.
- Pre-session dashboard review before every treatment
- Trend analysis across all 9 scales
- Dosing and frequency adjustments based on real response
- Early warning signals if any scale moves in the wrong direction
- Programme-end review with full data, not just a final impression
- The Patient Side
You see what your consultant sees.
One of the strangest things about being in mental health treatment is that you’re often the last to know whether you’re getting better. Symptoms ease so gradually that your day-to-day perception lags behind the underlying change.
We close that gap. Every patient has access to their own data through our app — every daily score, every clinical scale, every trend. When you have a particularly bad day, you can look back at your own chart and see that the trend is still upward. When something is genuinely changing, you can see it before your friends and family notice.
“For the first time in years, the numbers confirm what I feel — I’m actually getting better.”
Anonymised Save Minds patient
- With Your Consent
A clinical summary, shared with your GP.
With your written consent, we share a clinical treatment summary with your GP and psychiatrist at key points in your programme. This keeps your wider care team informed and ensures continuity of care — particularly important if you’re being managed for other conditions or considering changes to other medications.
Nothing is shared without your explicit permission. You decide what gets sent, when, and to whom.
- Initial assessment summary sent at programme start
- Mid-programme update at the halfway point
- End-of-programme report with full clinical outcomes
- All shared only with your written consent
- You receive a copy of everything sent
- Built In-House
The only mood-tracking platform of its kind, anywhere in the world.
Most ketamine clinics — including all of the larger US chains — rely on basic intake questionnaires done on paper or in a generic form-builder. We built our own platform, with our clinical and engineering partners at Ditto Medical, because nothing on the market did what we needed.
The result is a system designed specifically around our patients and our treatment protocol — daily check-ins by text, automated reminder logic, nine integrated clinical scales, a live consultant dashboard, and a patient-facing view of your own progress. It works because it was built specifically for this purpose, not adapted from something else.
Developed in partnership with Ditto Medical — a UK-based clinical technology partner specialising in mental health data tools.
- Common Questions
Questions about how we measure progress.
What happens if I miss a daily check-in?
Nothing. There’s no penalty, no missed-day warning, no streak you’ll lose. The app simply doesn’t have a score for that day. Patterns matter more than perfection — if you forget for a few days, your overall trend is unaffected. The check-in itself takes less than 30 seconds and most patients find the rhythm becomes automatic within the first week.
Is my data private and secure?
Yes. Your data is stored on secure UK-hosted servers compliant with NHS Digital and GDPR standards. Only you and your treating consultant can access your personal records. Aggregated, fully anonymised data may be used internally to improve our programme — and in some cases for peer-reviewed publication — but always with consent and never in a way that identifies you.
What if I disagree with my scores — or feel they don't match how I'm doing?
That’s exactly what your consultant is for. Scores are one input, not the whole picture. If your daily numbers say you’re improving but you don’t feel it (or vice versa), that itself is valuable clinical information — and it gets discussed at your next session. The data doesn’t override your experience; it sharpens the conversation.
How long do you keep tracking after my programme ends?
Your daily check-ins continue as long as you want them to. Many patients keep the daily mood tracker going for months or years after their active programme finishes — it’s a useful early-warning system if life stresses build up, and helps inform any future maintenance decisions. You can pause or stop the check-ins at any time.
Will my GP automatically see all my scores?
No. Nothing is shared with your GP, psychiatrist, or any other clinician without your explicit written consent. We do recommend sharing a treatment summary at key milestones for continuity of care — but you decide what’s included and what isn’t.
Can I export my own data?
Yes. At any point — during or after your programme — you can request a full export of every score, every chart, and every scale assessment we’ve recorded. Sent securely as a PDF report. No charge.
Real treatment deserves real measurement.
If you’ve spent years not knowing whether your treatment was actually working, this is your chance to find out — in real time, with real data, from day one.