NHS community services
Connect Health, working with the NHS for 30 years, is the largest independent community provider of evidence based, clinically driven musculoskeletal, pain management and mental health services, plus an increasing range of other out-of-hospital community care.
Who we are Connect Health Change WebinarsCommunity Musculoskeletal (MSK) Services
Our approach to helping patients understand and manage musculoskeletal conditions.
We’ve been providing solutions in the MSK and pain pathways for three decades with proven benefits to patients and secondary care pathway partners.
Mental Health and Wellbeing Services
Our approach to helping patients understand and manage mental health conditions.
Find out how we have taken our expertise and applied it to develop an exciting and innovative mental health and well-being model for supporting individuals in the community.
Community Pain Management Services
Our approach to helping patients manage their pain.
We provide combined physical and psychological pain management.
Community Rheumatology Services
Our approach to helping patients understand and manage rheumatology conditions.
We provide community rheumatology services, staffed by Consultant Rheumatologists, Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioners and Clinical Specialist Rheumatology Nurses.
Health Coaching Services
Enabling communities to live healthy and active lives
With a vision to enable our communities to live healthy and active lives, Connect Health’s Health Coaching strategy is to deliver positive change to models of care, to engage and empower people, by working together to build sustainable healthcare systems.
First Contact Physiotherapy (FCP)
Providing access to specialist MSK expertise
First Contact Physiotherapy (FCP) services allow people with Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions to access specialist MSK expertise at the beginning of the pathway. This ensures early diagnosis, optimised management, and timely onward referrals when indicated.
Long Covid Services
Our approach to working with patients who are living with Long Covid
Read more about how we improve fatigue, pain and other physical symptoms, physical and psychological functioning and promote self-management, health education and healthy lifestyles to minimise health risks after Covid.
Improving healthcare for all
Connect Health aims to improve everyone’s wellbeing by making healthcare better. We provide personalised care to 350,000 NHS patients each year, that focuses on quality, outcomes, safety and experience which is readily available and accessible for all.
Connect Health is determined to raise the quality and efficiency of MSK, mental health and pain community service provision across whole NHS systems.
Our innovative model of care and infrastructure minimises waste, using performance data to achieve 30% service efficiency across our newly mobilised contracts, reducing NHS patients’ average waiting times from 10-12 weeks to just 2-4 days for first contact with a physiotherapist, enabling better outcomes and relieving increasing pressures on primary and secondary care.
Connect Health and the NHS – working in partnership
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What's new
Case Studies
Connect Health’s Counselling service allows patients to be heard and feel like they have someone to talk to.
Kelly, from Hertfordshire, was suffering from depression and anxiety when she came to Connect Health. Her counsellor was able to help her to find her way.
Blog
We need to move beyond thinking and conversation.
Dr Andrew Cuff, Director of Clinical Strategy at Connect Health responds to the latest report by Versus Arthritis. “Each year, Versus Arthritis produce a report titled “State of Musculoskeletal Health”. This report provides an overview of a variety of factors
News
Connect Health wins national award for innovation
Connect Health is proud to have won the ‘Excellence in Clinical Innovation’ award at the HSJ Independent Healthcare Providers Awards in recognition of an outstanding dedication to support of the NHS and improvement in healthcare services. The winners were
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