NHSGo - An app designed for young people by young people

 

The app is part of the Healthy London Partnerships (HLP) Children and Young People’s programme which has engaged with young people to find out what they need from the health service. Young people told them that they often didn’t know where or when to access services and health information and didn’t know what their health rights were.

 

Together with a steering group made up of young people across London, HLP created the NHSGo app. Young people helped design everything from the look of the app to what content was put into it. They even came up with the name.

 

Young people said that the NHS was a trustworthy recognisable brand; an NHS app would provide them with a place where they could find health information and services whilst out and about.

The CYPF have agreed to work with HLP to continue to develop and promote the app as part of their commitment to improving health information for children and young people.

 

 

The app launched on the 14th July last year and has had over 40,000 downloads, 400,000 page views and 300,000 have watched the YouTube video.

 

HLP have used Twitter and YouTube to promote the video and used YouTube vloggers to speak about their previous or current health problems and why they like the new app. Each month there will be a featured health issue which is important to young people.

 

It now has over 16,000 followers on Facebook. This is one of the most important ways of getting messages out quickly; this recently included posting leaflets/advice on the major events that have happened in the last couple of weeks very quickly. Visit their page at www.facebook.com/nhsgo

If you like the sound the app, you can search iTunes or GooglePlay for the app or go to the website at http://www.nhsgo.uk/