Explore local health apps library to manage your health and wellbeing from home

CNWL's Digital & Innovation Group (DIG) has recently launched a new publicly available available Health & Wellbeing App Library for our service users in partnership with ORCHA. Our website helps you search and compare apps for FREE, so you can find the right one to keep you healthy and happy.

With the widespread ownership of smartphones and tablets, and the ever-increasing use of apps for anything from tracking jogging routes and providing dinner recipes, right through to monitoring heart rhythms, there is a real opportunity for apps to effectively support you in managing health conditions or your general wellbeing.

Unfortunately, with over 360,000 health apps in the most common app stores (Google Play, Apple etc) and with many not having any level of quality assurance, it can be incredibly difficult to find one that's appropriate, trustworthy and effective.

Our partner ORCHA has formed a team of people, including actively practicing clinicians, to independently review and accredit health apps against a large number of stringent criteria in areas such as clinical/professional assurance, data and privacy, and usability and accessibility; giving each app an easy to understand percentage score which will help people decide whether to download it or not.

The library also gives our teams the ability to recommend apps to you during consultations, by sending a text message or email link to the app where it is appropriate and if agreed with you.

Please be assured we do not expect apps or the library to replace any services you may be using, but rather complement them.

We have a guide which may be of use to help you get started, so please do take a look at the library and we hope you find an app that is useful for you.