NHS Navigation Hackathon

Who should attend

All students and staff are welcome to attend this event.

This event is an initial presentation to hear about an app development hackathon being held in London on 5 and 6 March 2016 at the Google Campus.

Information

Finding your way around healthcare isn’t always simple if you’ve just arrived in the UK.

Raj Adgopul is a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse based in Dorset who recently won the Mary Seacole Award.

With the award he intends to build a smartphone app aiming to explain to any migrant, refugee, or visitor how the UK healthcare system works.

Currently migrants to the UK receive no information about how to navigate the NHS healthcare system appropriately. They learn by trial and error, often at the financial expense of the NHS, and sometimes with a cost to their own health.

The Mary Seacole Award, which is co-funded by Health Education England and the Royal College of Nursing, is granted to projects that will help improve the health and experiences of Black and Minority Ethnic patients in the NHS.

Everyone is invited to hear from Raj on 5 February 2016 in Exeter to hear more about the project.

For more information please visit the hackathon website.

Registration

To register and for more information on the event please contact research-events@exeter.ac.uk.