Want to manage your health from home?
From keeping your lungs healthy, booking your vaccinations to beating the winter blues, there are lots of apps to help you stay well this winter.
Cold weather and winter bugs can affect our health, but there are things we can all do to keep well. Apps can be a good source of information, advice and motivation.
The Our Dorset health app library has a selection of tools to help you manage your health concerns common for this time for year.
If you would like free coaching, support or advice to help you live well in Dorset, please visit LiveWell Dorset.
There are many apps and services that can get you the help you need without having to leave your home including a dedicated NHS app from which you can view your GP health record, order repeat prescriptions, book appointments or access health advice – something over 400,000 people in the county are already doing.
A recent campaign to raise awareness of high blood pressure (hypertension) saw thousands of people download the BP@Home app, a mobile app-based service which enables people to take their blood pressure readings in the comfort of their own home and share them directly with their clinical team.
6,000 people in Dorset are monitoring their blood pressure using BP@Home, which has led to 400,000 blood pressure measurements being taken outside of general practice.
Figures show it could lead to a reduction in hypertension related appointments by as much as 93% within two years. And has saved an estimated 5729 kg in carbon emissions due to a reduction in people having to travel.
For more information on digital help visit www.staywelldorset.nhs.uk/digital.
