Connect Health has worked in partnership with the NHS for almost three decades and is the largest, independent provider of evidence based, clinically driven community MSK (musculoskeletal) services, including orthopaedics, pain, rheumatology and physiotherapy in the UK.
MSK includes a range of different clinicians, including specialist consultants, helping to diagnose and treat problems with joints, muscles and tendons.
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Connect Health has worked in partnership with the NHS for almost three decades and is the largest, independent provider of evidence based, clinically driven community MSK (musculoskeletal) services, including orthopaedics, pain, rheumatology and physiotherapy in the UK.
MSK includes a range of different clinicians, including specialist consultants, helping to diagnose and treat problems with joints, muscles and tendons.
Find out more Get in touch
See how Connect puts patient safety and quality first and learn about easy access to services through the Referral Management Centre, telephone physio service, digital apps and more.
Read about academic partnerships, clinical research and expertise, MSK educational resources, MSK clinical guidelines, clinical focus areas such as Cauda Equina Syndrome and more.
See information about innovative MSK model pathways and mobilisation processes that aim to deliver quality outcomes, seamless care and value for money.
Read about how we work with NHS partners and the outcomes being achieved along with innovations such as the Pain Revolution.
See how we use performance data to achieve up to 30% service efficiencies in newly mobilised contracts and more.
Connect is passionate about improving the lives for patients living with MSK conditions.
With a firm focus on delivering the right care in the right place at the right time, Connect is determined to raise the quality and efficiency of MSK and pain community service provision across whole 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.
For guidance about referrals, local clinical pathways and service information
Working in partnership with Nottingham West CCG and Nottingham North & East CCG (NW & NNE) to provide the MSK service since April 2016, Connect Health is proud to release updated figures relating to efficiencies and outcomes, up to April 2019.
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Karen Wright, 61 from Yorkshire, Great British Bake Off 2018 contestant explains how her frozen shoulder impacted her life and how innovative treatment from Connect helped her recover.
Deb Barrett, Community Services and Occupational Health Physiotherapy Team Leader, talks about how Connect has supported the development of her career to date, but also provided great flexibility and work-life balance.
The Pain: Do You Get It? event in Grantham was an awareness-raising public engagement movement encouraging the local community to change how they think, talk and treat chronic pain
