Essex Wellbeing Service
We provide Essex residents (excluding Southend-On-Sea and Thurrock) access to health checks, stop-smoking services, weight management courses and emotional health and wellbeing support.
We also support Essex organisations at work via our three-tiered Working Well programme. This consists of free workplace health and wellbeing sessions, Mental Health First Aid training, and the Working Well Accreditation that recognises organisations for their commitment to staff health and wellbeing.
We also run a volunteering service, recruiting and connecting volunteers with Essex residents who need support with everyday tasks, social isolation and making long-term friendships.
Our service is commissioned by Essex County Council, and supported by our alliance of partners, detailed below.
Provide Community
Provide Community are the lead provider for Essex Wellbeing Service and are a an employee-owned Community Interest Company (social enterprise). They deliver a broad range of health and social care services throughout Essex and East Anglia, as well as other areas of the UK, including Yorkshire and Dorset.
With a vision to transform lives through care, innovation and compassion, the company has a growing portfolio of businesses committed to offering continuing improvement, accessibility and quality of services. Provide Community services are delivered in community settings, including community hospitals, community healthcare clinics, schools, nursing homes, primary care settings and within service users’ homes to provide more than 60 services to children, families and adults.
Priority Digital Health
Priority Digital Health (PDH) builds digital solutions that empower better self-management and service management of patients’ health and wellbeing.
They ensure people get the help and support they need quickly, while remaining true to their ‘Tell Your Story Once’ mantra.
The organisation has two main products: The PDH Platform (customisable case management software) and AmaraHealth™ (a whole-body health and wellbeing app).
For Essex Wellbeing Service, PDH provides the case management system that digitises lifestyle bookings, volunteer sign-up and management and referral or self-referral for support with everyday tasks.
Priority Digital Health provides its marketing services for Essex Wellbeing Service and Essex Working Well website and social media. EWS also has access to the AmaraHealth™ app where Essex residents can track, analyse, and manage their whole-body health inside one app.
Age Well East
Age Well East offers community friendship services to anyone over 18 in Essex. The organisation’s aim is to end loneliness. Age Well East provides access to social groups and activities to empower people to live happier and healthier.
When left ignored, loneliness can escalate from a temporary situation to a chronic challenge, which the NHS estimates as having the same detrimental impact on health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. In Essex alone, as many as 80,000 people are thought to be lonely. Age Well East is committed to providing excellent and trusted support.
HCRG Care Group
HCRG Care Group is one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services. The organisation works with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services.
The children and family healthy lifestyle service is here to support your family in making long-term, sustainable adjustments to suit your lifestyle. If you are unsure if your child is within the healthy weight range, you can check their body mass index (BMI) using the NHS BMI Calculator.
Rural Community Council of Essex
Many Essex villages seem prosperous, but there are also signs of hidden deprivation and the potential for people in rural locations to be unfairly disadvantaged.
The Rural Community Council of Essex focuses mainly on these areas, but also provides some services, notably Community Agents Essex and United in Kind Coaches, on a countywide basis.
The Rural Community Council of Essex works to provide local communities with the skills, resources and expertise necessary to achieve a thriving and sustainable future.