The 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 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.
The Essex Wellbeing Service (EWS) also runs a volunteering service, recruiting and connecting volunteers with Essex residents who need support with everyday tasks, social isolation and making long-term friendships.
The service is commissioned by Essex County Council, and supported by our alliance of partners:
Provide CIC
Provide CIC is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise) that delivers a broad range of health and social care services in the community throughout Essex, Cambridgeshire and East Anglia.
The organisation works from community settings, including three community hospitals, several community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, and within homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults.
Provide CIC has been commissioned by Essex County Council to deliver the Essex Wellbeing Service in partnership with all the organisations listed on this page.
Priority Digital Health
Priority Digital Health (PDH) builds digital solutions that empower better self-management and service management of patients’ health and wellbeing.
PDH ensures 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.
PDH provides its marketing services for the EWS and Working Well website and social media. EWS also has access to PDH’s 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 (RCCE) focuses mainly on these areas, but also provides some services, notably Community Agents Essex and United in Kind Coaches, on a countywide basis.
The RCCE works to provide local communities with the skills, resources and expertise necessary to achieve a thriving and sustainable future.
Terrence Higgins Trust
The Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) team of specialist health and wellbeing coaches works to re-engage people who have lost trust in the system.
THT believes that involving and empowering local communities, particularly disadvantaged groups and young people, is central to both promotion of excellent Health and Wellbeing and the reduction of health inequalities.
Building upon the established working relationship between THT and Provide in Essex, the THT Essex Wellbeing Service (EWS) partnership will engage with and empower communities that are seldom heard from.