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
‘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 …
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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