The distrACT app, developed in collaboration with the Bristol Health Partners’ Improving Care in Self-Harm Health Integration Team (STITCH HIT), won the British Medical Association (BMA) Patient Information Award for wellbeing. The BMA Awards encourage the production, dissemination and evaluation …
Tags: Apps, Health Information, Mental Health, self-harm, suicide prevention, Youth Health
With young people’s mental health hitting the headlines, our distrACT app – which gives people easy, quick and discreet access to reliable information and advice about self-harm and suicidal thoughts – has been added to the NHS Apps Library. …
Tags: Apps, Health Information, Mental Health, Press & Media, Youth Health
In its newly published paper “The invisible problem? Improving students’ mental health”, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) recommends the use of the ESC Student app in higher educational institutions. Highlighting the need to signpost students to reliable …
Our new ESC Student health app was covered by the Independent on Friday 1 July. The app is available to download via the Apple App Store.
Tags: Press & Media
Our new app ‘ESC Student’ will be launched at this year’s Student Health Association Conference in Leeds on Monday 27 June as part of a wider campaign to help improve student health and increase health literacy among young people. Developed …
‘Great Involvement, Future Thinking’ (GIFT) and NHS England’s Head of Patient Experience, Kath Evans, have launched their first ebook on MyAPT about Young People’s Health Participation. Inspired by participation projects run by various Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) across the …
Tags: Resources, Youth Health
Improvements in young people’s health such as smoking, teenage pregnancy and drinking are discussed in an article by the Chair of the Association for Young People’s Health, John Coleman, and research lead Ann Hagell. Published in May’s edition of the …
Tags: Resources, Youth Health
One fifth of GP visits are down to tiredness and fatigue according to an independent survey of 300 UK GPs, carried out by the Natural Hydration Council. GPs felt that not drinking enough fluids is the cause of one in …
The NHS online information portal NHS Choices wants to better understand what their users are looking for when searching for information on a number of common health conditions. People who have experienced conditions such as shingles, corns and calluses, threadworms, fungal …
Tags: Health Information, Resources
The GP Champions project, a collaboration between the charities Association for Young People’s Health, Youth Access and the Royal College of General Practitioners’ Adolescent Health Group, has published a new ‘Toolkit for General Practice’ to help primary care improve their services for …
Tags: Resources, Youth Health