Evidence
Posted 25 July 2016
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Winner of the Academic Health Science Network Innovation in Healthcare Awards
ChatHealth's award from the Academic Health Science Network in 2014 was for improving access to healthcare for under-served service users. This movie, published in January 2016, looks back and describes some of the impacts of the innovation over the previous 18 months.
Posted 28 March 2016
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ChatHealth thanks a million
In Mar 2016 the ChatHealth support team was saying "thankyou" to nurses around the UK who had made it possible for a million young people age 11-19 to have access to text message help and health advice from NHS school nurses.
Posted 25 July 2015
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Review at the Patient Experience Network National Awards
A year on from winning the national award ChatHealth Product Manager Jimmy Endicott returned to the PENNAs in 2015 to explain how the positive impact for service users has continued to grow.
Posted 25 March 2015
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Winner of the NHS England Innovation Challenge Prize
In March 2015 NHS England awarded ChatHealth the prestigious Innovation Challenge Prize for digital engagement.
Posted 25 November 2014
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Txt 4 Help
The Journal of School Health in association with SAPHNA reports on ChatHealth in the run up to the 2014 ‘Inspire, Innovate and Improve’ event which encouraged children and young people centred care through enhanced technology.
Posted 25 October 2014
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Nursing for the next generation
Peer reviewed paper published by the RCN in 2014 in Primary Health Care, the community health nursing journal.
Posted 25 July 2014
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Health in a smartphone era
In 2014 our Clinical Lead Caroline Palmer won the Queen's Nurse Award for her work on developing ChatHealth.
Posted 25 January 2014
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Capital Radio reports on the ChatHealth pilot
In Jan 2014 Capital Radio reported how more boys were accessing healthcare support as a result of introducing one school nurse text messaging service.
Posted 25 January 2014
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Accredited by the Department of Health
In Jan 2014, DoH professional officer for school nursing Wendy Nicholson, visited the first ChatHealth pilot site and reviewed the strategic drivers for improving access to care through digital platforms in relation to the school nurse development programme.
Posted 22 January 2014
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Health help by phone's a hit
Local press report on ChatHealth being rolled out to the first 65,000 young people in schools in 2014 following initial piloting.
Posted 25 September 2013
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Students access school nurses through smartphones
The RCN journal Primary Health Care investigated the reactions of young people and professionals to the pilot of ChatHealth in 2013.
Posted 25 June 2013
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New school nursing text message service piloted
The Journal of School nursing reported the first pilot of ChatHealth for young people in three secondary schools in 2013.
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