A video messaging app has been launched at King’s School Hospital and Princess Royal College Hospital to assist households with untimely infants.
The app, funded via King’s School Hospital Charity, permits employees on neonatal intensive care items (NICUs) to ship common picture and video updates securely to households.
This enables households to see their infants’ play and remedy periods, baths and feeding occasions when they aren’t in a position to be with them.
Dr Anusha Arasu, guide in neonatal drugs at King’s School Hospital NHS Basis Belief, stated: “A keep on a neonatal unit might be one of the crucial irritating occasions for a household, however we are able to now assist dad and mom to be extra concerned, and extra related to their child’s care, in addition to making a constructive affect in delivering household centred care, even when they aren’t in a position to be at hospital.
“The app not solely permits us to share pictures and updates with dad and mom, however helps to scale back separation nervousness and permits the entire household to create and construct an emotional bond with their child.”
Mother and father and households may also use the app, which went stay at each hospitals in June 2025, to ask questions and obtain essential updates about their child’s progress.
Iona Pleasure, director of grants and perception at King’s School Hospital Charity, stated: “Holding households related is an important a part of our mission to make the most effective care attainable at King’s.
“We’re thrilled to assist this initiative, which helps households really feel near their infants even after they can’t be bodily current.”
Dr Numan Shahid and his spouse Dr Hajar Husain each used the app to obtain common updates on their four-month-old daughter, who was born prematurely at 27 weeks at King’s School Hospital.
Dr Shahid stated: “The app is an unbelievable thought – having updates on our little woman whereas I’m working is so uplifting.
“She is only some months outdated, however she’s a fighter and we’re hoping she will be able to come residence quickly. Within the meantime, we’re so grateful now we have this method to keep up a correspondence once we can’t be within the unit with our daughter.
“We’re profoundly grateful to your complete NICU group at King’s for his or her extraordinary care, dedication, and for giving households like ours this glorious alternative to remain related and concerned in our child’s journey.”
In the meantime, in Could 2025, a child-friendly app from Digital Well being Rewired Pitchfest finalist, Little Journey, launched for sufferers within the NICU at Lister Hospital.
The Little Journey app, initially developed to assist kids making ready for surgical procedure, has been tailored to fulfill the wants of households with infants in neonatal care.
