Working with the NHS

Connect Health, working with the NHS in partnership for almost three decades, is the largest, independent provider of evidence based, clinically driven community musculoskeletal, including orthopaedics, pain, mental health/IAPT, 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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Working with the NHS

MSK includes a range of different clinicians, including specialist consultants, helping to diagnose and treat problems with joints, muscles and tendons.

What's New Connect Health Change Webinars

Patient Outcomes

Excellent evidenced patient experience and outcomes

See how Connect Health puts patient safety and quality ﬁrst, and learn about easy access to services through the Patient Care Co-ordination team, telephone physio service, digital apps and more.

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Clinical Expertise

Clinical expertise (up to consultant level)

Read about academic partnerships, clinical research and expertise, MSK educational resources, MSK clinical guidelines, clinical focus areas such as Cauda Equina Syndrome.

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Efficiency

Highly effective pathways and operational efficiency

See information about innovative MSK model pathways and mobilisation processes that aim to deliver quality outcomes, seamless care and value for money when working with the NHS.

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Innovative Partnerships

Innovative partnerships with NHS commissioners and other providers

Read about how we work with NHS partners and the outcomes being achieved along with innovations such as the Pain Revolution.

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NHS Savings

Highly cost efficient

See how we use performance data to achieve up to 30% service efficiencies in newly mobilised contracts and more.

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Transformation

Making and embedding transformation

Read more about how Connect Health is working with NHS Partners to transform service delivery, using performance data, infrastructure and an established change methodology.

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Mental Health and Wellbeing

Our approach to helping patients understand and manage mental health conditions.

Find out how our 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.

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Long Covid

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.

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Delivering the right care, right place, right time

Connect Health is passionate about improving the lives for patients living with MSK and mental health conditions.
With a firm focus on delivering the right care, in the right place, at the right time, Connect Health is determined to raise the quality and efficiency of MSK, mental health 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.

Connect Health and the NHS – working together

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Hertfordshire IAPT compliant Counselling Service

In Hertfordshire, the Council’s vision and overall aim is that people experiencing mental health issues can access timely and responsive emotional and/or mental health support delivered through evidence based IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) compliant therapies.

Connect Health is delighted to be part of the Hertfordshire IAPT Counselling Service Framework. Working in partnership with other IAPT providers, Connect Health delivers free IAPT compliant counselling for adults and young people aged sixteen and over living in Hertfordshire with common mental health problems.

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Case Studies

You do more in the group exercise classes, you do it properly and you meet new people.

Petra Jahn, 63 from Milton Keynes tells us, after 5 operations on her hip and being off-work for 4 years, how her health is gradually improving through group exercise classes.

Quality assuring the multidisciplinary MSK workforce – Q&A Summary

As part of the Connect Health Change webinar series, we present the Q&A summary from our panel who discuss Health Inequalities – unfair and avoidable

Spice of life: The variety of MDT is the route to excellence, say MSK experts – and the time for action is now

Bold thinking and standardised assessment can drive services forward, finds latest webinar ‘Quality assuring the multidisciplinary MSK workforce’ was the subject of Connect Health‘s latest Change webinar on Wednesday 4th May, focusing on the potential of multidisciplinary working, and

Working with the NHS

Working with the NHS

Working with the NHS

Patient Outcomes

Excellent evidenced patient experience and outcomes

Clinical Expertise

Clinical expertise (up to consultant level)

Efficiency

Highly effective pathways and operational efficiency

Innovative Partnerships

Innovative partnerships with NHS commissioners and other providers