Little Journey 4+
Little Journey Ltd
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
Undergoing a healthcare procedure can be a daunting experience for anyone, especially as a child. Whether as part of routine care or a clinical trial, Little Journey supports children and their families from contemplation to full recovery through this award-winning app.
The simple-to-use app guides and supports children and their families through their healthcare journey – all from the comfort and safety of their own home. We support children through:
• Virtual reality tours enabling them to explore the exact rooms they’ll visit while in hospital.
• Age-tailored animations explaining what will happen and why.
• Breathing and relaxation exercises
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• Therapeutic and distraction games to use during stressful periods.
Little Journey helps parents by:
• Drip feeding information before, during and after their procedure.
• Providing small bitesize chunks of information to assist with information retention.
• Making it easier talk to children about what’s going to happen.
• Providing checklists, hints and tips, and nudges to make sure you’re all ready to go.
Little Journey was founded by an NHS doctor and researcher into children’s anxiety management. With support from children and their families, health play specialists, psychologists, nurses and doctors, the Little Journey app was born! We’ve continued to work with families and hospital staff to improve the app and expand to support families through more procedures.
Awards & recognitions:
• NHS Innovation Accelerator 2021
• Association of Anaesthetists Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI) Innovation in critical care and anaesthesia 2018
• Patient Experience Network National Award (PENNA) Innovative use of technology award 2021
What’s New
Version 4.7.7
BugFixes
Ratings and Reviews
Incredible resource !
Thank you - my son was recently in hospital and the app helped to make a really smooth transition in and out of the day ward for a small operation. I only wish the hospital (temple street) could have had some of the same characters, even in wall art form, for continuity as he noticed all the butterflies and stickers that were already there so it would’ve given it an extra dimension to see them in the hospital, (considering he asked me if the animals that did the virtual tour would be doing his operation! )
It’s an amazing clever and really easy to use app that should be the way forward for all patients to children’s hospitals. I have a qualification in play therapy and I felt it was a very powerful tool in psychological preparation for hospital.
Thanks to the team who devised and made it,
From Paula and Ben (age 4)
Super idea, super app
Love this app. It’s such a great idea; it’s well presented and has lots of relevant info. My little boy loved the hospital walk through, the games and the characters. Makes a hospital visit a little less scary for a little one!
Great idea but poor experience
Only option for appointment of procedure was day ward. My child was in patient & follow up appointments so in theory this looked great to help him through the next 6-8 weeks. Reality was a very poor experience & despite selecting his age it’s clearly meant for very little kids. No content of functionality
App Privacy
The developer, Little Journey Ltd, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Provider
- Little Journey Ltd
- Size
- 166.1 MB
- Category
- Medical
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Catalan, Dutch, French, Galician, Greek, Lithuanian, Russian, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Little Journey
- Price
- Free