Liva Healthcare and Care City have formed a partnership as part of the NHS Test Bed programme.
Liva Healthcare, the digital coaching platform, is combing with Care City, a community interest company to test combinations of digital technologies for an ageing population.
Care City was originally setup by the North East London NHS Foundation Trust and the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham to support healthy ageing and regeneration.
The partnership will see Liva Healthcare working with GP practices to deliver a 9-month sustainable behavioural change programme to patients newly diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.
Liva Healthcare together with Care City, will enable healthcare assistants and other non-clinical staff within primary care to become ‘digital prescribers’. This is where medication is supported by digital technology and lifestyle intervention, helping prevent chronic illness by driving sustainable lifestyle behaviour change. The innovations will be used in combination with one another to promote digital inclusivity for clinical staff and their patients.
Patients will be given a single personal coach, who will meet with them over live video to discuss and set personalised health goals. They will use the Liva app to log and track progress, with the health coach supporting the patient to establish sustainable lifestyle change.
John Craig, chief executive of Care City “Patients want to take a more active role in managing their own health. Our partnership with Liva Healthcare responds well to exactly this need and we are excited to see what positive, long-term outcomes flourish from this collaboration.”
Rose Connolly, a health coach for the programme comments “A strong and personal relationship based on trust, be that with a GP or health professional, is the most important driver for longer-term lifestyle changes for patients. It’s exciting to see that digital tools like Liva Healthcare have been specifically developed to enable these relationships for patients suffering chronic lifestyle diseases like Type 2 diabetes. It’s fantastic that the programme allows for such a tailored and personal approach to each patient’s well-being needs, allowing for the best possible health outcomes.”
Simon Pickup, UK managing director “We are pleased with this latest development to bring our personalised scalable programme back to North East London following the NHS Digital Diabetes Prevention Programme pilot. It’s important that patients from all backgrounds have the same access to digital health tools, so that everyone can manage their lifestyle at the touch of a button.”
