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Health and care apps that meet UK national standards in all four nations.

Codeeo delivers healthcare app development UK health tech suppliers, NHS organisations and care providers can take through national assurance. We build patient apps, remote monitoring platforms, home care systems and clinician tools, with NHS login, interoperability standards, the DSPT, the DTAC, DCB0129 and DCB0160, UK GDPR and MHRA intended purpose planned into the product from the first sprint.

Health is devolved, so England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland each run their own NHS structures and care regulators. A product meant for national sale has to be configured for those differences, not rebuilt for each one. Rollout usually starts in one region, then extends to other cities and nations as contracts follow.

Built for
Health tech suppliers, NHS bodies, care groups and digital health start ups selling or operating across the UK.
Typical timeline
Set after discovery, when the regulatory route, national integrations and rollout order are clear, and confirmed in writing before design.
What you own
Everything we create: source code, designs, documentation, app store and cloud accounts, and all data, owned by your organisation.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer

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HMS
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Ghezlan

National capabilities

What a UK wide health app needs beyond the screens.

Selling or running a health app nationally changes the engineering problem. Features still matter, but buyers in every nation will ask how the product handles identity, interoperability, clinical risk, security and accessibility, and they will ask for documents rather than reassurance. The capabilities below are the national building blocks we put in place for suppliers and providers working across the UK. They sit underneath whatever your app does for patients or staff, whether that is booking, monitoring, care planning or video consultation. We size them to your market: a start up approaching its first NHS pilot needs less than a supplier holding contracts in several nations, and we say clearly what can safely wait.

Explain your project
  • Four nation configuration

    Organisation types, regulators, terminology and service names differ between NHS England, NHS Scotland's boards, Welsh health boards and Northern Ireland's HSC trusts. We hold these as configuration, so one product presents correctly to each, including Welsh language content where NHS Wales customers require it.

    One codebase serves buyers in every nation.

  • NHS login and national identity

    For services in England, NHS login gives patients a verified identity they already use for the NHS App. We integrate it, map identity levels to features and support partner onboarding. For the other nations we plan identity options with your customers, since national services differ.

    Patients reuse a trusted identity instead of new passwords.

  • Interoperability through national standards

    We build to FHIR UK Core and use national services such as the Personal Demographics Service, GP Connect or e Referrals where your use case and approvals allow. Each connection follows NHS England onboarding and is documented for your customers' information governance teams.

    Integrations follow national standards rather than one off links.

  • Clinical risk management workflow

    DCB0129 applies to you as manufacturer and DCB0160 to each organisation deploying your product. We keep the hazard log tied to development tickets, record safety related design decisions and supply test evidence, so your clinical safety officer can produce a safety case report for each release.

    Each release ships with safety evidence ready for review.

  • DSPT ready security controls

    Encryption in transit and at rest, strong authentication, least privilege access, logging, backup and tested incident response are built in and documented. That supports your own Data Security and Protection Toolkit submission and the questions customers ask about their supplier's security.

    Security answers come from documented, tested controls.

  • Intended purpose and MHRA readiness

    Whether your software is a medical device depends on what it is intended to do. We help you write that intended purpose precisely, avoid features that drift beyond it, and maintain the traceability and change control a UK Medical Devices Regulations submission needs, while classification remains your regulatory adviser's decision.

    Product scope and regulatory position stay aligned.

  • Remote monitoring at national scale

    Device integration, reading intake, configurable alerts and worklists that serve many customer organisations at once. Each customer's clinicians set their own thresholds and escalation routes, and data is partitioned so one organisation never sees another's patients.

    Many organisations share a platform without sharing data.

  • Care provider compliance records

    Home care and care home products need visit, medication administration and incident records that satisfy the regulator in each nation: the CQC in England, the Care Inspectorate in Scotland, Care Inspectorate Wales and the RQIA in Northern Ireland. We structure records to support those inspections.

    Providers can show inspectors complete records in every nation.

  • Accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA

    NHS bodies must meet the public sector accessibility regulations, and every provider has Equality Act duties. We design and test to WCAG 2.2 AA with assistive technology, and keep an accessibility statement and issue log current for every release.

    Buyers in the public sector can accept the product.

  • Multi organisation administration

    Central teams manage customers, services, users and settings across every nation from one console, while each organisation controls its own staff and content. Usage and audit reports can be produced per customer for contract reviews.

    National operations stay manageable as customers grow.

Who it is for

Organisations that need a UK wide health app.

National products and national services face the same core questions, but they arrive at them from different directions. A supplier needs to pass procurement in many organisations. A provider group needs one system across many locations. A start up needs to reach its first NHS pilot with evidence that holds up. The four groups below cover most of the UK wide work we do. In each case the conversation starts with the same question: which organisations will buy or use this, in which nations, and what will each of them need to see before saying yes.

01

Health tech suppliers scaling across the NHS

You have a product used by one or two NHS organisations and want to sell into trusts, health boards and care providers in other regions. That usually means multi tenancy, configurable pathways, stronger integration and a DTAC response that holds up under the refreshed form NHS England has introduced. We add engineers to your team and rebuild the parts that will not scale, without stopping delivery to current customers.

Growth without pausing existing contracts.

02

Care groups operating in several nations

Home care and residential care groups with branches in England, Scotland or Wales answer to different regulators and commissioning bodies. A single carer app and office platform, configured for each nation's rules and terminology, replaces local systems that cannot report consistently. Records are structured for inspection by the relevant regulator, and data stays separated by branch where contracts require it.

One platform, configured for each regulator.

03

Digital health start ups preparing for the NHS

Founders often have a working prototype and a pilot partner, but no clinical safety file, DPIA or DSPT submission. We rebuild the product to a standard that can pass assurance, help define intended purpose so the MHRA position is clear, and produce the documentation an NHS buyer expects. Clinical validation, evidence of effectiveness and the NICE Evidence Standards Framework remain with your clinical team.

Assurance planned before the first pilot site.

04

National providers of remote and virtual care

Telemedicine app development UK organisations commission increasingly spans video consultation, remote monitoring and asynchronous messaging under one service. Providers working for many commissioners need consistent clinical workflows, CQC registration for the regulated activities they carry out, and reporting per contract. We build the platform; your clinicians own every clinical rule within it.

How we take a health app from one pilot to national use.

  1. 01Regulatory and market mapWhich nations, which buyer types, which regulators and which national services apply. The result is a list of evidence to produce and decisions to take before building.
  2. 02Architecture for many customersTenancy, configuration, identity, hosting regions and integration patterns designed so a new trust, health board or care branch is onboarded by setup, not new code.
  3. 03Design and research by video callResearch sessions with patients, carers and clinicians from different nations and settings, so the product works in a city hospital and a rural community service.
  4. 04Build with evidence attachedEach sprint delivers working software plus updates to the hazard log, data flow map, security records and accessibility log that buyers will later request.
  5. 05First site, then a secondPilot with one organisation, review incidents and feedback with your clinical safety officer, then prove configuration by launching a second site in a different setting or nation.
  6. 06National rollout and supportPlanned waves of new customers, onboarding material, monitoring, release management and updates to keep pace with national interface and standards changes.

Technology

What we build this with.

Native and cross platform mobile apps, web administration, FHIR UK Core and HL7 v2 interfaces, device integration, and UK cloud hosting with separate environments for testing and production. Every choice is documented so your own engineers or a future supplier can run it, and dependencies are kept current to reduce security risk.

01Mobile

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Flutter
  • React Native

02Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

03Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

Common questions about building a health app for the UK.

Approvals and integrations more than screens.

Designing and building the features is usually predictable. What extends timelines is external: NHS login onboarding, approval to use national APIs, a customer's DTAC review, DPIA sign off and clinical safety review. We identify those dependencies in discovery, start the ones with long lead times early, and agree dates with you once we know which reviews sit on the critical path. A narrow first release often reaches patients sooner, and the evidence it produces makes later approvals easier to win.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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