Student Health App (UK)
Discover the Student Health app, a free health app for students managing their own health for the first time – including physical health, mental health, and knowing where to turn.
If you lead student services, wellbeing, or health provision at a UK university or college, it gives you one trusted resource to put in every student's hands.
This means students get reliable answers at 2am on a Sunday – not whatever a search engine or chatbot offers them.
Available free on the Apple App Store and Google Play. No account required.
Managing health alone, for the first time
For many students, university is the first time they have to navigate their own health – without a familiar GP, without a parent to ask, and often in an unfamiliar city.
Small worries grow quickly in that gap. Is this normal? Should I see someone? Who do I even call? And the moments the questions arrive – late at night, over a weekend, mid-exam period – are rarely the moments support is available.
Is this you?
Built for student services, wellbeing teams, and health provision leads in UK higher education. Three problems you'll recognise:
- Demand outstrips capacity – counselling services and campus health teams face growing waiting lists, especially in peak terms.
- The hardest moments fall out of hours – nights, weekends, and exam periods, when your teams can't be reached.
- Students search online first – and find inconsistent advice, or AI answers no one has checked, which often makes anxiety worse.
All of it costs something – in stretched teams, in anxiety that builds unchecked, and in students who disengage before anyone knows they're struggling.
What you're giving students
Clear guidance when concentration is low and stress is high. Put the app in students' pockets and you can:
- Help them understand their symptoms – plain-English explanations of common physical health, mental health, and lifestyle concerns.
- Give them safe steps to take now – practical self-care they can act on confidently in their accommodation.
- Show them where to turn next – when to self-treat, and when to contact their campus GP, a helpline, or urgent NHS care.
- Reach them wherever they are – fully offline, including on placements and off-campus.
The app is not a replacement for clinical care. It sits alongside your provision – reinforcing your welfare messages and supporting students between appointments.
Make a difference – without straining budgets or teams
Four priorities it supports:
- Extend support beyond opening hours – something reliable at the moments your teams can't cover.
- Ease pressure on wellbeing services – fewer early-stage queries reaching teams already at capacity.
- Support students who are waiting – safe guidance between referral and appointment.
- Give students a trusted first stop – ahead of search results and unchecked AI advice.
Free for students and institutions. No contracts, no set-up, no personal data collected.
Built to the standards you'd expect
Developed in partnership with the University of Bristol Students' Health Service and a diverse panel of UK students.
- PIF TICK accredited
ORCHA assessed
NHS DTAC compliant
More on how we develop and quality-assure content.
Supported by student health experts
- "We recommend that higher education institutions advertise the Student Health App and encourage its use."
Higher Education Policy Institute – The Invisible Problem- "There's never been a more crucial time for students to have access to reliable, safe, relevant health information. They shouldn't leave home without it."
Dr Dominique Thompson, National Student Health Expert and Past President, Student Health Association
Make it your campus app.
Add a branded homepage and a directory of your welfare teams, campus security lines, and local NHS pathways – all in one place students already have.
Relaunching autumn 2026 – help shape it
The Student Health App is being rebuilt from the ground up for the autumn 2026 term: modern design, updated clinical content, and new ways for institutions to shape how it works for their students.
We're talking to a limited number of universities and colleges before launch. If you'd like a say in what it becomes, now is the moment.