Healthcare Apps: stop missed messages - connect carers, clinicians and patients in real time

Our healthcare apps - including our flagship hospital communication apps - are redefining how NHS teams connect and collaborate. Designed to improve patient communication and streamline coordination between colleagues, carers and families, they put secure, real time messaging at the heart of healthcare. Say goodbye to missed calls, email backlogs and paper trails, and hello to efficient, joined up communication that transforms patient care across every service.

Whether you’re supporting long term condition management, delivering staff training, or coordinating busy rotas, our healthcare communications app and broader suite of healthcare apps are built for the needs of modern NHS services. Mobile, scalable and easy to use, they make effective healthcare communication simple.

Greater Engagement

Efficient Information Access

Enhanced Communication

Built for better patient engagement and staff experience

With our healthcare apps, patient engagement becomes effortless. Share condition updates, self care guidance, appointment reminders and educational resources in just a few taps. Enable staff to deliver better outcomes with tools that reduce admin, improve collaboration and strengthen patient communication at every stage.

Key benefits:

On-demand access to vital resources – pathways, policies, schedules, lifestyle tips and more
Improved patient engagement – support self-management and keep patients informed and empowered
Enhanced communication and patient care – reduce silos and delays through a unified healthcare communications app
Stronger morale – empower frontline teams with intuitive tools they actually want to use

NHS effective communication – in action

From Community Health Trusts and Acute Hospitals to Long Term Condition Services and NHS Boards, our healthcare apps solve real world challenges across all NHS environments.

Stay Connected

Share urgent alerts, shift rotas, updates and policies instantly with a secure healthcare communications app, ensuring consistency across departments and services.

Reduce Stress

Simplify workflows and ease pressure for clinicians and admin teams with tools designed to improve clarity and patient communication.

Boost Training & Onboarding

From internationally recruited nurses to medical students, ensure seamless access to learning materials, placements and shift details – all in one place.

Educate and Empower

Support patients of all ages with tailored health resources, enhancing self care and improving outcomes through every patient care app in our portfolio.

Explore Our Healthcare App Solutions

Patient Care Apps

Our patient care app solutions are designed to improve outcomes in long term conditions, cancer services, paediatrics and much more. Empower patients with the right tools and resources, wherever they are.

Workforce & Training Apps

For NHS Trusts, Boards and Services, our healthcare communications app streamlines communication and training at scale. Equip staff with rota access, policy updates and real time updates to boost efficiency and collaboration.

Let’s improve communication in healthcare together.

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