Healthcare
Reduce anxiety and improve patient outcomes
Little Journey equips families with the knowledge, preparation, and support they need to navigate their healthcare experiences. For families We reduce anxiety through at-home learning and preparation, made accessible to all.
We are proven to reduce anxiety and improve patient outcomes.
Healthcare
Improving outcomes for patients and healthcare professionals
Little Journey equips families with the knowledge and support they need to navigate their healthcare experiences. For families we reduce anxiety through at-home learning and preparation, made accessible to all. For healthcare staff we improve clinical workflow, treatment adherence and burnout.
What is Little Journey?
The Little Journey app offers:
- virtual hospital tours to explore the different rooms and learn about the patient pathway
- bite-sized information articles to prepare and inform
- distraction and soothing activities to cope with strong emotions
- independently audited for accessibility and the app is compatible with assistive technologies.
All configured to your hospital’s unique patient pathway!
Featured Module
A Little About Me
Care Profiles
About this module
A Little About Me is a first-of-its-kind digital tool that gives children a voice in their own care. Now a core feature of the Little Journey app, it will help UK hospitals advance strategic goals in efficiency, equity, and innovation in paediatric care.
How it works
Engaging Quizzes
Families complete quizzes within the Little Journey app. Capturing preferences, communication needs, and potential triggers
Personalised Care Profiles
A clear, concise report is automatically created using a standardised format that any clinician can quickly review.
Action the Insights
Care profiles enable staff to tailor their approach, make early referrals e.g. to health play specialists, and build trust from the first interaction.
Virtual Tours
Interactive 360° tours help children, young people, and their caregivers to navigate their hospital visit. Each tour has engaging characters who walk families step-by-step through their visit, whether it's for a blood test, an MRI, or surgery. The key rooms, equipment, and healthcare professionals they may meet are all introduced.
Caregiver Information
By providing articles, checklists, and site contact details, we create a single source of truth that reduces the information burden on families. Search, favourite, and filter functions make it simple to find and organise relevant content.
This module is designed by experts to recognise and support the crucial role parents and caregivers play in their child’s healthcare experience and compliance with care.
Relaxation
Through a series of child-narrated and playful animations, children and young people are guided through deep breathing and body relaxation exercises.
Designed with paediatric psychologists and health play specialists, the module provides effective tools to promote calmness, build emotional regulation skills, and help manage stress. For children visiting hospital, these coping strategies are essential for a more positive patient participant experience and to reduce anxiety and distress.
Games
A selection of fun and interactive games to engage children and young people during appointments- from the waiting room to the procedure room.
Designed with input from paediatric psychologists and health play specialists, our games use vibrant colours, intriguing sounds, and tactile vibrations to provide an immersive sensory experience, distracting children from worrying stimuli.
Hospital benefits
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- 80% reduction in repeat scans
- 67% reduction in unplanned admissions
- 28% reduction in post-op analgesic use
- Up to £41.38 saved per patient
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Improves patient satisfaction and experience (97% satisfaction rate with information among families)
Patient benefits
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- Studies demonstrate reduced anxiety in children
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22% reduction in the need for premedication
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30% less time spent in recovery
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Improves patients’ lives and health behaviours (studies show 1.74% QALY improvements)
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Fewer missed days of school/work
How it works
Tailored content
We provide interactive content tailored by age, procedure, and hospital. We create content accessible to all children, with a strong focus on supporting neurodiverse children.
Designed by children, for children!
We involve families and healthcare professionals at every stage of our creation process. We co-create our products with children, especially those who are neurodiverse, to support all children to better health.
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Tailored content
We provide interactive content tailored by age, procedure, and hospital. We create content accessible to all children, with a strong focus on supporting neurodiverse children.
Designed by children, for children!
We involve families and healthcare professionals at every stage of our creation process. We co-create our products with children, especially those who are neurodiverse, to support all children to better health.
Why use Little Journey in your healthcare organisation?
Better Patient Experiences
We provide families with age-tailored content, so they feel better supported and prepared for their hospital visits. By doing so, we enhance patient satisfaction and experience of care through better communication and step-by-step support.
Improved Patient Outcomes
Our psychological preparation and support improves physical and mental health outcomes. From faster recovery to fewer sick days, we help children and young people get back to doing what they love.
Lower cost of healthcare
We help lower healthcare costs by reducing on-the-day cancellations, unplanned admissions, and the need for premedication.
Better care co-ordination
Little Journey improves patient flow and staff utilisation through enhanced patient compliance and understanding.
Improved population health
We promote the development of positive health behaviours in families, helping to reduce the global health economic burden of illness.
Improved patient experience
We promote positive health behaviours in families, helping to reduce the global health economic burden of illness.
Streamlining Care Across the Hospital
The Little Journey app is more than just a patient resource, it’s a tool that supports the entire hospital team. Covering 12 different procedures across multiple departments, the app ensures patients receive accurate, tailored preparation materials before they arrive.
By standardising patient information and ensuring consistency across the hospital, we help improve compliance with clinical guidelines and support safer patient care. With patients arriving better prepared and more informed, staff can focus providing a high standard of care at every stage, leading to smoother workflows, fewer delays, and improved overall patient flow.
Here's what our users and clinical partners think
Thank you so much for developing such an amazing app!! I used it for my 4-year-old daughter's journey through surgery at Ipswich Hospital. She’s so anxious usually and this app was like a magic wand! She knew exactly what to expect and completely got into the role of the patient! Absolute god send Thank you"
"We used the Little Journey app to help a 9 year old girl recently who was very anxious and has autism. Her previous procedures have been a real challenge due to this. After the patient downloaded and used the app, it was a much less stressful situation, simply due to the immersive distraction she experienced from playing with the app."
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See how Little Journey can help your healthcare organisation
Over 50 NHS Trusts have chosen Little Journey for their patients, including:
