Our Customers – Health

Digital Social Prescribing
for organisation in Health

With the rapid growth, interest and variety of social prescribing health care models, Elemental’s digital social prescribing platform enables Commissioners, GPs, Health Coaches, Care Coordinators, Link Workers and other Health Care Professionals to scale and measure health and wellbeing within the communities most in need.

Who's it for?

Commissioners

We know that Commissioners in health need to reach the hardly reached in their community and justify expenditure on commissioned programmes and services and report monthly with evidence-based data.

We also know that you need to better connect multiple stakeholders to tackle conditions and/or service geographical locations and to measure resources/budgets in the most cost-effective and efficient way possible. That’s why at Elemental, we’re continually committed to enhancing the reporting capabilities of our award-winning digital social prescribing platform.

Commissioners have access to a range of reports that help to inform and define the health needs of a population, determine priorities, purchase appropriate services within available resources and monitor/evaluate to inform the next commissioning round.

Our platform also enables Commissioners to:

Reach more people
Facilitate more people to access and engage in social prescribing services
Create bespoke social prescribing programmes suited to the needs the community
Demonstrate the impact of social prescribing programmes and services
Monitor and track the status of social prescribing referrals across a community cohort
Calculate and evidence the health and social value of alleviating health inequalities
Provision of evidence-based outcomes to reporting purposes
Generate the data at a neighbourhood, locality, and regional level showing what works well, helping to inform the future design of services
Help prove that their commissioned services are value for money

GPs and Multi Disciplinary Teams

With the increasing demand for services, limited resources, and recruitment challenges all contributing to the general practice capacity pandemic, we know that GPs and MDTs are under more pressure now than ever before. NHS targets have increased, resources have been cut back and time is only limited to 10 mins per appointment in most surgeries.

During the Pandemic NHS resources have been stretched worryingly thin with GPs under a huge amount of pressure to make the right call in order to keep patients safe and to ease the strain on the front line and ensure patients get the care they need.

Elemental is here to help by providing the digital connectivity that’s needed to allow remote working, multi-sector partnership working, and support from Social Prescribing Link Workers and services in the VCSE sector.

Elemental enables and provides GPs with the ability to:

Support more patients with non-medical/ social issues via the ability refer from within their clinical system to SP Link Workers either in practice or working remotely (Referrals sent with 3 Clicks from within EMIS Web, Vision, and SystmOne)
Access to safe, secure effective referral pathways
Ability to monitor the impact of the social prescribing referral: Elemental has a number of built-in measurement tools that measure wellbeing, anxiety, activation levels such as MYCAW and the Patient Activation Measure
The ability to access a number programmes, support initiatives in the local community
Report on evidence that supports delivery of Health/ Social Board objectives and other national and regional policies
Empower patients to access Link Worker support without having to come to the practice (via the Elemental Self Refer module)

Social Prescribing Link Workers

At Elemental, we know how vital the role of Social Prescribing Link Workers is in ensuring that people in our communities are supported, cared for, and empowered.

Link Workers also play a role in helping to reduce demand for GP services and are able to help people with many of their social needs.

There is increasing pressure and demand on Link Workers and that’s why we’re committed to continually enhancing and improving the capabilities of our digital social prescribing platform to provide teams with the tools and technical connectivity they need for multi-sector partnership working, leadership, and the measurement of mobilisation of support where needed.

Elemental’s award-winning platform is currently enabling over 2,200 Social Prescribing Link Workers across the UK and Ireland to:

Receive referrals from numerous sources such as GPs, Social Workers, Crisis Support Teams, Community Paramedics etc
Manage caseloads with ease and confidence
Report at a individual, cohort or locality level on where referrals come from , what the reason for referral is, which services people are engaging in, rating of the services and the different the service is making to the person’s life
Monitor the impact of the social prescribing referral on patient activation
Carry out baseline assessments with patients and co-create wellbeing plans based on the outcomes
Easily add to a live and interactive shared database of services
Monitor the impact of the social prescribing referral on the person and the community
Better support their communities by co-designing referral pathways that are bespoke to the individual

Some of our customers in Health

Testimonials

Why our customers in health love Elemental!

The assertive outreach we have been doing over the phone to these 6,000 people has identified a list of people who are in immediate need which we can provide support for. A number of these patients have shown an interest in availing of our social prescribing services also, so we have entered them on to Elemental in preparation for us continuing to work with them in the aftermath of this crisis, as and when restrictions are lifted.

We are looking forward to the future with Elemental Self Refer being something we hope to avail of as the pandemic starts to quieten down. This will be especially vital for us if we hit a post-pandemic depression or an economic fall out.

Ingeus is proud to be the first in its field to join with Elemental. Their digital social prescribing platform brings together a range of agencies and charities in Greater Manchester providing a better integration of services for people in their local neighbourhoods. Now our ability is further enhanced to provide a more personalised and holistic service.

We are calling on service providers in the community to join us. Using the digital platform, our teams will be able to book participants directly into relevant appointments and interventions with partner organisations that will produce actual referrals for an activity and encourage attendance by job seekers. Some of our more vulnerable clients would be more likely to attend when they know that someone is waiting to welcome them.

Having a digital platform has allowed Barnet to keep up-to-date in a fluid and emergency situation by working with the local authority to ensure there is a central directory of service that is updated consistently and disseminated throughout Barnet, but also allowing GPs a place to refer patients that need urgent and continuous social care.

Piloting Elemental software at our GP practice in London demonstrated ‘real world’ application of a digital platform that quite simply, works. With minimal training, clinicians were able to refer patients simply and securely direct from our existing clinical system, and the social prescriber was able to review referrals, assess patients and refer onwards as needed. Elemental allowed for easy capture of data which was vital for monitoring and evaluation when assessing the impact of the intervention. Social prescribing in primary care relies on a trusted person-to-person working relationship, and Elemental software supports this efficiently and effectively, without getting in the way of the human touch.

Case Studies

Case studies showcase how together, we can make a difference. Have a look at social prescribing in action.

Digital Social Prescribing
for organisation in Health