Increase awareness, reach, uptake and impact of community health and wellbeing services

Elemental has provided us with a platform to present our findings with authority, encourage more partners to collaborate with us, allowed us as an organisation with a small number of staff to help provide a service to a large number of people and made it so easy for GPs and Clinicians to buy in to making a social prescription at a single click of a finger in consultation times. “We have had numerous testimonials from across the board of how valuable accessing a social prescription has proved to be in helping people in their lives whether it be someone’s HBA1C level dropping after taking part in a low carb programme to someone being ready to return to work after getting some voluntary experience to someone just feeling part of the community again

We have adapted the SPRING model and have launched a new “Connect Well” service to provide support to our clients during lock-down. We have also introduced additional training and mental health support for our staff to ensure that they too, feel supported and empowered to work throughout Covid-19. Elemental has been an integral part of our reporting system in SPRING Social Prescribing. The platform will help us get a specific picture of the needs and issues arising during lockdown, which give us an invaluable insight into the needs of our community and also a projection on the future demands on services

It is going to be great to have a platform that allows us to share relevant information appropriately, whilst minimising the risk of data breaches. We are excited to see how Elemental will change our organisation as we grow

Referrals at Action Together have increased from around 100 a month, to 1000 in less than 2 months. At our busiest we received 136 referrals in a single day. The team have worked closely with partners to help meet the demand and they enlisted the help of staff from Tameside’s health improvement service to work as part of our team. Again we were able to give them temporary access to Elemental so that after a brief induction we could work remotely and as part of the Action Together team.