What Thalamos does

Thalamos is a London-based UK medtech company that develops software for Mental Health Act administration workflows. It was co-founded by Arden Tomison and Ross Tomison (cousins) and operates with an 11-50 employee headcount. The company serves NHS Mental Health Trusts, Police services, Local Authorities, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and private mental health providers in England, with an installed base covering approximately 95% of NHS Mental Health Trusts. As the sole provider of digital SOAD (Second Opinion Appointed Doctor) forms to the CQC, Thalamos sits inside a regulator-mandated workflow that is otherwise paper-based in most NHS contexts. The company has raised approximately £900k in seed funding (September 2022) from Ascension's Conduit Impact EIS Fund and is an NHS Innovation Accelerator participant.

The product portfolio is organised around the eMHA by Thalamos core platform and an eMHA Portal, extended through adjacent modules: Thalamos CQC (regulator-facing), MH Forms, Dr Finder (clinician directory / resolution), the London 136 Dashboard (section 136 cross-agency monitoring), and Trust Centre (Trust-level administration). Together these products digitise the end-to-end Mental Health Act process — from form assembly, to second-opinion approval, to cross-agency coordination between NHS, Police, and Local Authorities. Underlying technology is a workflow-and-forms platform with regulator-integrated forms, role-based audit trails, and Trust-level identity management; the input does not disclose proprietary machine learning or AI components.

Revenue mechanics are anchored to per-Trust / per-agency software licensing within UK public-sector procurement frameworks, with cross-sell motion extending the wallet into Police and Local Authority buyers. Distribution leverages NHS Innovation Accelerator endorsement, direct Trust procurement relationships, and the regulatory credential of being the CQC's sole digital SOAD forms provider, which together create a pipeline advantage relative to non-credentialed workflow vendors.

Name

Thalamos

Legal name

Thalamos Ltd

Website

https://thalamos.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Thalamos is a London-based UK medtech company that provides digital Mental Health Act workflow software — including the sole CQC-approved digital SOAD forms — to approximately 95% of NHS Mental Health Trusts plus Police and Local Authorities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Mental Health Act Compliance Software

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Virtual Behavioral Health Integration Platforms (HLALABAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Care Navigation, Referral & Digital Front Door Platforms (HLALABAH)

Keywords

• Mental health software
• Mental Health Act compliance
• NHS digital health
• MHA digital workflows
• Mental health crisis care

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. NHS and Public Sector Software Licensing: Thalamos provides its digital MHA platform to NHS Mental Health Trusts, Integrated Care Systems, Local Authorities, Police forces, and other statutory bodies under contract. Revenue is generated through annual licensing fees contracted with NHS commissioning bodies. The company also offered its software free to the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrating a for-purpose approach. Pricing is estimated per year on the website using a data-driven calculator.
2. Platform and Add-on Modules: Thalamos offers multiple product modules including eMHA by Thalamos, eMHA Portal, MH Forms, Dr Finder, Thalamos CQC, and Advanced Choice Documents. Each module addresses specific parts of the mental health care pathway, enabling upsell and land-and-expand dynamics within NHS organisations.
3. Dr Finder Payment Processing: Dr Finder includes a digital doctor location, booking, and payment platform where independent doctors request payment for work undertaken as part of their professional duties. Thalamos facilitates and processes these payment claims, functioning as a transaction intermediary.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Thalamos sells a cloud-based digital Mental Health Act (MHA) workflow platform, anchored by eMHA by Thalamos, which replaces paper-based statutory admission, treatment and discharge forms across the entire UK mental health care pathway. The platform serves NHS Mental Health Trusts, Integrated Care Systems, Local Authorities, Police forces, the Care Quality Commission and private providers, with add-on modules for SOAD form delivery, doctor booking and payment, Section 136 pathway support, and trust-level transparency.

Product overview

Thalamos offers a platform-plus-modules architecture anchored by eMHA by Thalamos, a complete digital Mental Health Act suite covering statutory admission, treatment and discharge forms across the full care pathway. The product portfolio includes: eMHA by Thalamos (core platform); eMHA Portal (form administration and monitoring module); Thalamos CQC (digital SOAD form delivery to the Care Quality Commission, covering ~95% of Mental Health Trusts); MH Forms (statutory form management); Dr Finder (digital doctor location, booking and payment for MHA assessments); London 136 Dashboard (Section 136 pathway support for London via the OneLondon partnership); and Trust Centre (transparency, customer experience and metrics platform). Together, these products replace fragmented paper-based MHA processes with a unified, interoperable digital care pathway spanning NHS Trusts, local authorities, police, CQC and private providers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• eMHA by Thalamos: A complete digital Mental Health Act suite providing all statutory admission, treatment and discharge forms for all organisations involved in mental health care.
• eMHA Portal
• Thalamos CQC
• MH Forms
• Dr Finder

Products and services

• eMHA by Thalamos A complete digital Mental Health Act suite providing all statutory admission, treatment and discharge forms for all organisations involved in mental health care. Available on demand across the mental health pathway at Ward, Hospital, Trust, ICS and System level. Replaces paper-based form filling to reduce errors and delays in the sectioning process. For NHS Mental Health Trusts, Integrated Care Systems, Local Authorities, Police forces, the CQC and private providers.
• eMHA Portal A platform making Mental Health Act form administration, monitoring and request of changes simpler, swifter and safer. Targets MHA form administration and monitoring workflows within NHS organisations.
• Thalamos CQC Digital Second Opinion Appointed Doctor (SOAD) forms and processes delivered to the Care Quality Commission. Thalamos is the sole provider of digital SOAD forms, with approximately 95% of Mental Health Trusts receiving SOAD forms from Thalamos.
• MH Forms Mental Health Act form management module within the Thalamos platform. Part of the eMHA suite of products for statutory form completion and management.
• Dr Finder A platform to streamline Mental Health Act assessments with a digital doctor location, booking and payment platform. Enables clinicians to locate available doctors, book assessments, and process associated payments for independent professional duties under the Mental Health Act.
• London 136 Dashboard Dashboard supporting Section 136 police powers pathways in London, enabling patients to access the nearest available health-based place of safety more quickly. Part of the OneLondon partnership bringing eMHA to the capital.
• Trust Centre A transparency and customer experience platform supporting NHS organisations' scale and oversight of digital Mental Health Act processes. Provides visibility across key performance metrics and supports compliance reporting.

Quantifiable outcome

• 90% reduction in typical clerical errors on MHA forms
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers18 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and strategic.

• AWS Europe (London)coreOthersThalamos runs its software and securely stores data using AWS Europe (London) data centres, which are powered by 100% renewable energy. AWS's investments in renewable energy and carbon reduction directly align with Thalamos's commitment to sustainability and net zero by 2050.
• Weightmans LLPstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerThalamos partnered with Weightmans, a UK law firm, to deliver a two-part webinar series on navigating the interface between the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act. The series brings together legal expertise from Weightmans partners Ben Troke and Jill Weston with Thalamos's operational experience to help professionals and organisations understand the legal framework. This partnership positions Thalamos at the intersection of legal reform and digital practice.
• ACCESS (Rio EPR)coreTechnology or IntegrationThalamos has achieved ACCESS Rio EPR certification, indicating integration with the Rio Electronic Patient Record system used by NHS trusts. Four NHS Mental Health Trusts have demonstrated the impact of the Thalamos-Rio EPR integration, enabling seamless data flow between MHA digitisation and trust EPR systems.
• Cyber Essentials PluscoreOthersThalamos holds Cyber Essentials Plus certification, demonstrating compliance with UK government cybersecurity standards for handling NHS health data and ensuring secure completion and communication of Mental Health Act statutory forms.
• London Care RecordcoreTechnology or IntegrationThalamos has partnered with the London Care Record to display Mental Health Act status, enabling real-time MHA information sharing across the OneLondon integrated care system. This integration brings MHA data into the shared care record accessible by all authorised care providers in London.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Servelec (Access HSC): Access HSC (formerly Servelec, including the RiPL electronic patient record) supplies mental health and social care case management software to UK local authorities and NHS trusts — historically the closest functional competitor to Thalamos in MHA-adjacent workflows and now part of the same Access ecosystem that owns the Rio EPR integrated with Thalamos.
• Liquidlogic (Access Group): Liquidlogic provides children's and adults' social care case management systems used by UK local authorities — directly comparable to Thalamos's AMHP and Local Authority workflow modules and a competitor for social services digitisation budgets within the same procurement cycles.
• Advanced (Rio EPR): Advanced supplies the Rio Electronic Patient Record used by many of Thalamos's NHS Mental Health Trust customers and is certified as a Thalamos integration partner; while not a direct competitor in MHA forms, it is the underlying EPR platform that could potentially absorb MHA functionality and is therefore a critical strategic peer.
• BigHand: BigHand provides workflow, case management, and document automation software to legal, healthcare, and public sector organisations, including NHS trusts; comparable to Thalamos in digitising paper-based statutory and administrative workflows within UK public sector organisations.

Broad incumbents

• TPP (SystmOne): TPP's SystmOne is one of the dominant primary care and mental health EPRs across the NHS; with deep trust penetration and broad clinical functionality, it represents the largest incumbent that could extend into MHA form digitisation and compete with Thalamos at the trust level.
• EMIS Health: EMIS Health is a leading UK supplier of healthcare IT, including mental health and community modules used by NHS trusts; a broad incumbent whose footprint in mental health EHRs positions it as a potential competitor or partner to Thalamos.
• System C Healthcare: System C provides electronic patient record and clinical software solutions to NHS acute and mental health trusts, including shared care records; comparable to Thalamos in serving NHS trust IT budgets and a likely channel partner or competitor for MHA-adjacent workflows.

Peers

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Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/thalamos

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors4 records

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M&A

Investments

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