King's Adolescent Outreach Service launched in 2018. It was created to meet the needs of young people aged 16-19y who were admitted under adult teams to adult wards. Although they got excellent medical and surgical care, their non-medical needs were often not met. KAOS use youth workers to explore a psychosocial history and identify need / signpost to services.
To provide young people in hospital with information about their care, this app was devised. It is a PWA, because it is easy to keep up to date without needing approval from the App Store or Google Play, is accessible on any phone through the webbrowser.
The youth workers are overseen by volunteer clinicians, usually consultants across the organisation providing clinical advice and guidance to the youth workers. The app has a roster built in, with an authentication layer. The backend and authentication is provided by Google Firebase.
The PWA is provided by Ionic 5 and (Angular 9)[https://angular.io/].