IFDC vs Know Your Care

IFDNC is an innovative smartphone app that helps parents through their NICU journey in the ethos of family integrated care. The app offers an up to date and comprehensive educational material, developmental timeline and different diary functions to document the neonatal journey and memories. Our units provide care to high risk, often critically ill neonates, and family integrated care is one of our guiding principles. The overarching goal of family integrated care is to support parents in becoming equal members of the neonatal team and participate in providing active care for their infant with the help of a competency-based training. This App and educational material was designed for our Integrated Family Delivered Care project, but even if parents are not able to participate in this new care model it can help them a lot on their way. We hope that with this material we can help you to prepare and engage parents in this journey, and understand what is happening to their Baby. Our app gives the opportunity to learn more about neonatal care, chart expressing, skin-to-skin cuddles and feeding progress and growth as well as record events, pictures and memories of your journey.

Understand who’s caring for you — instantly Know Your Care helps patients, families, and carers understand who is involved in their care in hospital. In busy healthcare environments, it can be difficult to recognise staff roles, understand what different team members do, or know who to ask for help. This app makes it simple. Know who’s who - Identify staff by uniform or role - Understand what each healthcare professional does - Learn how care teams work together Stay organised during your care - Save notes about your care - Keep track of questions for staff - Build your own personal library Accessible for everyone - Supports 17+ languages - Clear, simple design - Works offline Designed for real healthcare settings - No patient data collected - No login required - No connection to NHS systems Who is it for? - Patients in hospital or attending appointments - Families and carers - Healthcare students and learners Know Your Care is an educational tool and does not provide medical advice.