Physical Activity Apps

Quality Assuring Apps

On this page we have compiled a number of Apps to support you to be physically active. All the Apps hosted on this page has gone through a quality assurance process known as the OBR (ORCHA Baseline Review). The OBR is primarily an assessment of an Apps compliance with current standards, regulation and good practice (together 'Standards').

The Standards currently looked at in the OBR are:

• CQC – Care Quality Commission
  The independent regulator of all health and social care services in England. If an App provides a health service to the user, it may need to be registered with the CQC.
• Caldicott Principles
  We assess whether Apps comply with the NHS Data Standards. The Caldicott Principles ensure that any patient information which could identify them is protected, and is only used and shared when it is appropriate to do so.

Scoring

The OBR seeks to assess an App`s performance through its compliance with these Standards. The higher the ORCHA Score achieved the more compliant the App is with these Standards.

Whilst a high scoring App is not guaranteed to be effective or safe, or a poorly scoring App is not necessarily ineffective or unsafe, it does mean that the relevant developer has taken more or less care over the Apps compliance with these key Standards than other similar Apps. In the critical area of health this apps aim to address, we believe that developers should take compliance with Standards extremely seriously.