The CONfidence app, one of the most recent additions to the family of Expert Self Care apps, has been certified to meet the standards required for the NHS Digital Technology Assessment Criteria (DTAC). The DTAC has been introduced by the …
Tags: Apps, Health Information, Quality assurance
A new free-to-download app to help people navigate the coronavirus pandemic has been launched for Apple and Android devices. The Coronavirus Support App (UK) has been created by Expert Self Care together with an over 40-strong interdisciplinary team of experts, …
Tags: Apps, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Health Information, Press & Media, Resources
Knut Schroeder and Theresa Lehnen, who led the creation of the ‘Student Health Matters’ app on behalf of the Irish Student Health Association, were interviewed by ‘App of the Day’. Talking about their experiences in developing the app, they …
Tags: Apps, Health Information, Mental Health, Youth Health
As the number of confirmed cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to rise across the globe and governments ask people to stay at home, digital health resources offer practical tools that can be called upon for remote self-management. To help …
Tags: Apps, Health Information, Mental Health, self-harm, suicide prevention, Youth Health
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
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 Patient Information Forum has just published an excellent new toolkit titled ‘Creating health information that works’. Bringing together best practice guidance, practical resources, and the evidence behind the statements, the toolkit also contains case studies from information producers.
Tags: Health Information, Resources