Buddy App

Bring together formal professional led services and informal people.

Overview

Buddy App empowers people with mental health illnesses to manage their condition by enabling them to see and understand the relationship between the things that they do in their daily life and the impact this has on their mental health taking control of their own recovery in collaboration with their professional. Buddy App is an innovative digital tool which uses simple everyday technology to add value to service users and their professionals and to help transform therapy services by moving into the digital age. It provides a daily text messaging service linked to a web application to help service users and professionals have a better experience and achieve better outcomes more efficiently from the care they receive. The tool is designed to complement and enhance services whilst providing greater empowerment to users by harnessing the power of mobile phones to encourage them to make positive changes in a way which wraps around their daily lives beyond formal care.