Digital Health January 21, 2026
Tammy Lovell

  • The NHS App is being positioned as the central national channel for delivering preventative healthcare
  • Rachel Hope, director of digital prevention services at NHSE, said that services should do more than notify people about their eligibility for screening and vaccinations
  • The ambition is for national platforms such as the NHS App to support prevention services end-to-end

The NHS App is planned to become the central national channel for delivering preventative healthcare, said Rachel Hope, director of digital prevention services at NHS England.

Moving from ‘treatment to prevention’ is one of the three major shifts in the government’s NHS 10 year health plan, with an ambition to halve the gap in healthy life expectancy between the richest and poorest...

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