Services · Mobile app development · Healthcare apps
Our healthcare app development Manchester service covers remote monitoring platforms, home care apps, patient portals and staff tools for providers working across the ten Greater Manchester boroughs. Buyers include NHS providers, health tech companies on the Oxford Road Corridor and care agencies commissioned by local councils. Every build plans for NHS login, the Data Security and Protection Toolkit, DTAC and clinical safety standards from day one.
Greater Manchester has run its health and social care budgets jointly since devolution in 2016. That means apps here are judged on how well they fit a city region wide system, not a single organisation, and we plan the data sharing questions with that in mind. A tool that works for one trust but cannot be shared with a neighbouring borough is a harder sell to commissioners.
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Capabilities
Most requests we receive from Manchester start with remote care. Providers want to look after more people at home, whether through virtual wards, long term condition monitoring or domiciliary care, and they need software that clinicians and carers trust. The city region already has a shared record in the GM Care Record and a resident facing app in My GM Care, so new products have to complement them rather than duplicate them. That shapes the list below. We start with the monitoring and care coordination pieces, then the patient and family facing parts, then the reporting that boroughs and commissioners ask for. Not every app needs every item. Discovery decides which ones belong in your first release, based on your pathway, your staff and the evidence you can realistically produce.
Patients submit blood pressure, weight, oxygen saturation or symptom scores from approved devices or by hand. Your clinicians define what counts as out of range and who is told. The software applies their rules and records every decision, and we document intended purpose so the MHRA position is clear.
Clinical rules stay in clinical hands, with every alert traceable.
A web dashboard groups patients by acuity flag, last reading and next contact due, so a hub team covering several boroughs, from Bolton to Stockport, sees who needs a call first. Notes, calls and escalations are logged against each patient for handover between shifts.
Hub staff start each shift knowing who to contact first.
Agencies working for more than one Greater Manchester council often hold different contracts, rates and reporting rules in each borough. The roster tracks which commissioner each package belongs to, plans travel between Oldham, Rochdale or Wigan calls, and keeps carers on familiar runs.
One roster handles several council contracts without spreadsheets.
Signal drops inside tower blocks and older mills converted into flats. Community nurses and carers keep working offline, with records encrypted on the device and synced when the connection returns, and conflicts flagged for review rather than silently overwritten.
Work carries on without signal, and nothing is lost on sync.
Residents sign in with NHS login. Low risk features can use a basic identity level, while viewing records or messaging clinicians needs a higher verified level. We map each feature to the right level and support the partner onboarding NHS England runs.
Identity checks match the sensitivity of each feature.
Messages between district nurses, social workers, GP practices and agency coordinators are tied to the person being cared for, held in the platform and kept off personal messaging apps. Read receipts and escalation paths are configured for each team.
Care conversations sit on the record, not in personal phones.
People choose what family members can see, who can contact them and how. Consent records are versioned, which helps your data protection officer show a lawful basis under UK GDPR for each use of special category health data, and they are easy to change from the app.
Consent is recorded, versioned and simple to update.
Activity, response times and visit completion are exported in the formats councils and NHS Greater Manchester ask providers for. We build exports, not direct links into commissioner systems, unless a documented interface and agreement are in place.
Contract reports come from the system, not manual counts.
For telemedicine app development Manchester services need, we add scheduled video or phone follow ups to the monitoring flow, with consent prompts, an interpreter option and a fallback when video fails, so the review happens either way.
Remote reviews sit inside the same patient record as readings.
Screens meet WCAG 2.2 AA and are written for readers with low health literacy. Large touch targets and clear status messages help older residents, who are often the main users of monitoring and home care apps.
The people most likely to use the app can use it.
Who we work with
The four situations below cover most of the conversations we have with Manchester organisations. Each needs a slightly different balance of clinical safety work, integration and user research. Tell us which is closest to yours on a first call and we will explain how the scope would usually be shaped, what evidence a buyer would expect, and which questions to settle before any design work starts. Manchester also has two large universities, so a share of users in central wards are students registered at a term address, and several pathways need to work for people who speak a language other than English at home.
Hospital and community teams caring for people at home need a worklist, readings intake and a clear audit of every call. Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust and its neighbours operate at a scale where off the shelf tools sometimes cannot match local pathways. We build the software around your pathway, while your clinical safety officer completes DCB0160 and your governance team signs off the data flows.
Clinical decisions stay with your clinicians.
An agency may serve Manchester, Trafford and Tameside under three different contracts. We build a carer app and office console that handle each contract's rules, record visits for CQC inspection and give families a view of visit times if you want that. Agencies already completing the DSPT find the evidence for the app straightforward, because the controls are documented as we build.
One system for every council you work with.
Start ups and scale ups at hubs such as Citylabs and Manchester Science Park often have strong clinical insight and too few engineers. We add a team that works in your repositories and process, contributes to your DCB0129 hazard log and helps you prepare DTAC answers for NHS buyers in Greater Manchester and beyond.
Engineering capacity without handing over your product.
Charities and social enterprises in the city deliver commissioned services such as social prescribing or carer support. They need simple, accessible apps that respect limited budgets and volunteer staff. We keep scope tight, use proven components and make sure safeguarding and data protection are designed in from the first sprint. Where a service is funded by a council or the ICB, we help you show the funder how the app handles data and who is accountable for it.
Engagement
Fixed scope projects suit a single pathway pilot or a new carer app. Ongoing retainers suit services that change with commissioning cycles and NHS interface updates. A dedicated team suits health tech companies that need several engineers for a sustained period. Cost depends on user types, integrations, offline needs, the assurance evidence involved and the support you need after go live. Codeeo has 80+ people in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and works remotely with Manchester clients, with every workshop and review held by video call. We are rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews, and the scope, roles and assumptions are set out in writing before work starts.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
Cross platform or native mobile apps with offline storage, web dashboards, FHIR UK Core and HL7 interfaces, device integration through manufacturer APIs, and hosting in UK cloud regions where your information governance policy requires it.
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02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Scope, integrations and the assurance evidence you need.
A carer app for one agency with no NHS integration sits at the simpler end. A monitoring platform with device feeds, NHS login, a virtual ward dashboard, offline mode and DTAC preparation sits at the other. Hosting requirements, the number of boroughs or contracts and the support model after launch also move the budget. We itemise each driver in the proposal so you can decide what belongs in the first release.
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