Northumbria Healthcare NHS Basis Belief has launched an app to offer quick access to assist and steerage for sufferers with most cancers and their households.
The app, which launched on 25 June 2025, covers bodily and psychological wellbeing assist that individuals can entry from native and nationwide charities and teams, recommendation and steerage in relation to the price of most cancers, and details about Northumbria Healthcare’s most cancers prehabilitation provision.
A ‘Most cancers data and assist’ webpage already gives data and assist for sufferers on the belief and their households.
Mel Freedman, Macmillan personalised most cancers lead at Northumbria Healthcare, mentioned: “Our most cancers internet web page has been accessed hundreds of instances up to now 12 months, however we needed to make it even simpler and faster for individuals to get the assist they want.
“We requested sufferers what issues to them to create our new app and concerned them in co-designing it. What we’ve give you is a bitesize model of the web site.
“We all know that going via most cancers is about far more than the therapy individuals have, and we need to ensure that we assist sufferers and their households each step of the best way.”
The app, developed with assist from Vivid Northumbria Healthcare Charity, is free to obtain through the Google and Apple app shops.
Rob Graham, head of Vivid Charity, mentioned: “We had been impressed by the workforce’s dedication to serving to sufferers dwell with and past most cancers, so we had been very completely satisfied to assist this mission.
“We hope that the app might help sufferers and their households going via troublesome instances by offering them with quick access to the assist, steerage and recommendation they could want.”
In March 2025, Northumbria Healthcare introduced that it had acquired the enterprise of Well being Name Options Restricted to extend its vary of software program merchandise and enhance healthcare for sufferers.
It can purchase software program merchandise to higher handle healthcare information, allow NHS sufferers to handle appointments extra simply and ship care remotely into properties and communities.
The transfer continues Northumbria Healthcare’s digital technique of growing and delivering companies that assist each the medical workers and the general public in accessing care, which has included the digitisation of thousands and thousands of well being information and the creation of latest methods that assist medical groups work extra successfully.
