Student Health Matters app (Ireland)
Discover Student Health Matters, a free health app for students in Ireland managing their own health independently – often for the first time, and often far from home.
If you lead student health or wellbeing at an Irish college or university, it gives you one trusted resource to put in every student's hands from day one.
This means students have somewhere reliable to turn when your doors are closed – instead of a friend's guess or an alarming search result.
Available free on the Apple App Store and Google Play. No account is required to download or use the app.
The gap every student health service knows
Many of your students are living away from home for the first time – balancing academic pressure, new social lives, financial stress, and everyday independent living. When health concerns arise, they don't always know what's normal, what's serious, or where to go.
So they ask a friend, or they search online. What they find is often unreliable, alarming, or simply not relevant to student life in Ireland.
Without clear guidance early on, small concerns escalate. You see the pattern across every cohort, every year.
Is this you?
Built for student health services, wellbeing teams, and student support leads across Irish higher education. Three problems you'll recognise:
- Demand keeps growing while capacity doesn't – your teams are skilled and committed, and still stretched thin.
- The moments students need help fall outside your hours – evenings, weekends, and exam periods.
- Students turn to unreliable sources first – friends, forums, and search results that raise anxiety rather than settle it.
All of it costs something – in stretched teams, in concerns left too long, and in students who disengage before anyone notices.
What you're giving your students
Whole-health guidance, built for Irish student life. Put the app in students' pockets and you can:
- Support healthy living – diet, exercise, alcohol, drugs, smoking, and vaccinations.
- Help with mental health – recognising symptoms, managing stress, and knowing when to seek help.
- Cover sexual health – contraception, consent, STI testing, and pregnancy support.
- Answer everyday health questions – common conditions, first aid, emergencies, and HSE resources.
- Point them to the right support – HSE services, helplines, and local or university provision.
Written in plain English and easy to dip into, especially during busy or stressful periods.
The app is not a replacement for clinical care. It sits alongside your services – reinforcing your messages, reducing reliance on unsafe online sources, and supporting students when your teams can't
Make a difference – without straining budgets or teams
Four priorities it supports:
- Extend support beyond opening hours – something reliable when your service is closed.
- Reduce repeated queries – consistent answers to the questions your team fields constantly.
- Help students seek help earlier – and more appropriately, before concerns escalate.
- Give a consistent welcome – the same trusted guidance for every student, every intake.
Free for students and institutions. No contracts, no set-up, no personal data collected.
Trusted by Irish student health professionals
App launch at the 2020 ISHA conference in Dublin
Developed in partnership with the Irish Student Health Association (ISHA) and co-created with student health professionals and students from South East Technological University (SETU) and the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS).
"Tailored specifically to the needs of third-level students in Ireland — the app is a tremendous resource — the first of its kind for our student population."
– Theresa Lowry Lehnen, Clinical Nurse Practitioner, IT Carlow, ISHA Lead
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Make it your own campus health and wellbeing app.
Add a branded homepage and a directory of your local services, support, and pathways – building confidence and a sense of belonging from the moment students arrive.
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If you'd like to explore how Student Health Matters could support your students and staff, let's spend 20 minutes on it.