The NHS Feeling Unwell?

I drive a bus in Greater Manchester. I also spend my early mornings building an AI-assisted wellness tool aimed at people whose jobs don't leave room for the usual wellbeing check-ins. The NHS's own 2025 Staff Survey found 42% of staff reported feeling unwell due to work-related stress in the past year, and nearly a third described themselves as burnt out. Ambulance staff reported the highest burnout of any occupation group. Those numbers aren't new to anyone working shifts — but the tools available to catch a decline early haven't kept pace with the size of the problem. That's the gap I've been building Vitalis to sit inside. It's a short daily self-scan — stress, sleep, burnout, shift-work-specific wellbeing — that tracks a trend over time, so a person (or an employer) sees a pattern before it becomes a crisis. It's deliberately positioned as a wellness-awareness tool, not a diagnostic one, and it hasn't been through DTAC assessment yet — I'm not going to pretend otherwise to anyone in this field. What I am doing: running a bounded 30-day pilot model, with completion and engagement as the primary measure, evaluated against whatever baseline an occupational health team wants to set — not our own internal numbers. If you work in NHS digital health, workforce wellbeing, or occupational health and this is a gap you recognise, I'd value the conversation — even if it's just to tell me where this needs to change before it's useful to you.