NICE publishes guidance on digital and mobile health interventions

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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published guidance titled 'Behaviour change: digital and mobile health interventions'. The guidance details 'interventions that use a digital or mobile platforms' to aid individuals to eat more healthily, become more active, quit smoking, limit their alcohol use or practise safer sex. However, the guidelines only cover those that are 'delivered by the technology itself and not by healthcare professionals using technology to deliver interventions'. The guidance is aimed at 'local policy makers and commissioners, individuals, groups or organisations wishing to work or working with health and social care service providers, designers and providers of digital and mobile health interventions and programmes, behaviour change practitioners, trained staff working in health and social care services who have contact with the general public, people who want to improve their health-related behaviours (concerning diet and physical activity, smoking, alcohol use and safer sex), their families or carers, and...