Skin Assist was set up by Dr Anita Amin, a UK-trained consultant dermatologist. It is the next step in her goal to provide patients with quicker access to skin specialist services, having provided digital consultation services since 2019.

With patients waiting increasingly long times (sometimes many months) for diagnoses for skin problems, Dr Amin wants to streamline not only access to services, but easier monitoring, quicker triage and diagnosis.

Using images collected through the service, Dr Amin aims to contribute to an image dataset that can train AI to recognise characteristics of potentially cancerous moles and lesions. Through using Skin Assist, patients can contribute to creating this technology to advance dermatology services and the field more broadly.