Pod: Online mental health outcomes and feedback system

Enhance your use of mental health outcome data 

Pod is an online tool that helps your setting enhance mental health support using outcome and feedback measurement data. 

1. Service users fill out clinical and feedback questionnaires and track their progress over time. 

2. Results are instantly sent to their practitioner so they can be discussed straight away, or in their next session.  

3. Pod saves time and prevents mistakes in manual data entry, automatically collating each service user’s feedback data and producing instant visualisations.

Pricing is based on the size of your organisation and starts at £350 for a single practitioner. 

How it works 

Pod is entirely web-based, with no need to download software. Our experienced team will assist with set-up to help you get the most out of the system. 

When they log in, service users are allocated a unique ID to keep track of their results on an individual record and measure progress over time. They can answer questionnaires online on their own devices both in and out of clinical sessions. 

You can link other people in a service user’s life to their account, such as siblings, parents or carers, so they can complete questionnaires as part of their support.

Practitioners receive user data in a range of accessible presentations so they can discuss results with service users straight away. 

Settings can also aggregate service users’ data, allowing you to identify strengths and challenges and evaluate what works for who, why and in what context.

Who can use mental health outcome data?

Pod can be used in a variety of contexts, with current users including NHS trusts, local authorities, charities, research projects and workforce development programmes.  

Key features

For practitioners:

• Manage your case load with automatic measure scheduling, keeping track of what measures are due, when they are due and when cases are up to date. 

• Simplify data analysis with instant graphs, visuals and score interpretation.

• Keep in touch with service users through email or text message reminders for when questionnaires are due for completion. 

For your setting:

• Choose the right measurement for your context, with over 130 measurement systems included and the option to add custom questionnaires.

• Take control of the data you collect, with the ability to export information to formats like CSV, and in formats compatible with the Mental Health Service Data Set (MHSDS).

• Integrate with existing systems with the option for interoperability with software such as Electronic Patient Record Systems.

Learn more about using data to improve mental health care 

The Child Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC) is an Anna Freud project that helps you make the most of the data you collect to better understand your work’s impact and improve quality of care. The CORC team are experts in the fields of research, statistics, outcome measurement and service improvement. Members of the team provide a range of support for the collection, analysis and reporting of data and the use of data to improve services as well as training and knowledge-sharing opportunities.

CORC hosts a directory of validated outcome measures to assess children and young people’s mental health. Their website also contains various free guidance for using outcome measures, including working with specific groups of children and young people. 

With over 20 years of expertise, CORC also provides training and consultancy to ensure you can use data to nurture mental wellbeing for children and young people. You can either attend scheduled webinars, or arrange bespoke training for your organisation. 

By becoming a CORC member, you get: 

• free access to all CORC scheduled training and events for your staff

• support from a named Regional Officer tailored to your organisation's needs, including data analysis support 

• access to a Best Practice Framework self-assessment tool 

• access to other resources.