WEST LANCS CCG PATIENT FOCUS: COLLABORATING THROUGH SOCIAL PRESCRIBING TO REDUCE BLUELIGHT CALLS BY 92%

By working together and liaising with other health and social care colleagues Skemersdale Social Prescribing team have been able to reduce calls from the patient to the ambulance service by 92% and subsequently the patient has improved a positive shift in her physical and mental wellbeing.

January

SALFORD CVS LAUNCH SOCIAL PRESCRIBING PROJECT AIMED AT SUPPORTING 2,500 INDIVIDUALS IMPROVE THEIR HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Salford CVS partnered with Elemental to assist in the delivery of a new programme of work which develops and embeds person and community-centred approaches within the health and social care system.

February

RADIAN GROUP APPLY A MORE HANDS-ON APPROACH TO SOCIAL PRESCRIBING

Since launching a digital social prescribing partnership with us last year, Radian regularly receives instant social prescription referrals from GP practices, community nurses and primary care professionals, with plans for their housing officers to make referrals in the near future.

March

SPRING Social Prescribing Programme Bridges the Gap Between Health Care and the Community

Elemental has been working in partnership with the Healthy Living Centre Alliance and Scottish Communities for Health and Wellbeing to train Social Prescribers on our digital social prescribing platform, which connects individuals to non-clinical support in their community, including cookery classes, mindfulness, exercise activities and gardening groups.

April

PATIENT ACTIVATION MEASURE® COMING SOON TO ELEMENTAL’S SOCIAL PRESCRIBING PLATFORM, THANKS TO A GROUNDBREAKING PARTNERSHIP WITH INSIGNIA HEALTH

Integration with Insignia’s activation and analytics system means that Elemental customers can promote self-care by co-creating social prescribing plans with patients using outcomes from PAM assessments.

May

Cornwall Council Enhance their Social Prescribing Programme with Elemental’s Digital Platform

Following a successful Department of Health and Wellbeing bid, Cornwall Council and voluntary sector partners partnered with Elemental in a digital social prescribing programme designed to enable health professionals in Cornwall to prescribe non-clinical activities to residents.

June

Elemental Co-Founder scored a hatrick as she was named as one of the Most Influential Women in Tech for third year running

Leeann Monk-Ozgul, Co founder and Co-CEO of Elemental, retained her place as one of the Most Influential Women in Tech on Computer Weekly’s long list, for three consecutive years.

July

Active Londoners funds extension of Physical Activity Southall - A hyper local approach to promoting physical activity

Active Londoners funded the extension and mainstreaming of Physical Activity Southall, a hyper local approach to promoting physical activity in Catalyst neighbourhoods.

August

Link Workers can now prescribe apps thanks to groundbreaking partnership between Elemental and Orcha

Mobile apps are set to become a vital part of personalised healthcare thanks to a unique new partnership between tech for good company, Elemental, and the world’s leading health app evaluation and advisor organisation, Orcha.

September

Harrow Council partner with Elemental in a bid to bring personalised care closer to communities

In a bid to bring care closer to their communities, Harrow Council is developing a borough wide social prescribing service. The service will allow patients to be referred into social prescribing programmes by GPs and Social Care professionals, with plans to allow patients to self refer themselves into activities and programmes in the future.

October

IMAGINE INDEPENDENCE PARTNERS WITH ELEMENTAL IN A BID TO BROADEN THE REACH AND IMPACT OF SOCIAL PRESCRIBING IN THE VCSE SECTOR

A charity specialising in supporting people with mental health challenges is partnered with Elemental, to take forward a new collaborative approach to social prescribing in the third sector.

November

Merton Voluntary Service Council partner with Elemental to scale and enhance social prescribing impact in Merton

The Merton Voluntary Service Council Social Prescribing Coordinator (SPC) delivered the hugely successful pilot through two GP Practices,Wideway Medical Centre and Tamworth House Medical Centre. The emergence of Primary Care Networks has since created an opportunity to scale the success of the pilot to a borough-wide programme across all 22 GP practices.

Shaping a new decade for Social Prescribing