Health writer and commentator Roy Lilley joined us on a visit to Blackmore Vale Partnership in Gillingham, Dorset, on what he describes as his road to Damascus. “If there’s a Holy Grail, I think I might have found it…social prescribing doesn't really do it justice. It's a partnership philosophy. It's not us and them, it's them with us…..this approach is so totally unique, there is nothing in the management lexicon that helps to describe it“
Read MoreThis CBC article tells the stories of people who participate in the social programmes at one of 11 sites across Ontario taking part in a pilot project to test social prescribing influenced by our model of Collaborative Practice.
Read MoreDirector of Altogether Better, Alyson McGregor, talks to Henry Aughterson from the MARCH Network about Collaborative Practice, and the genuine involvement of communities in GP services on this podcast.
Read MoreOur Director, Alyson McGregor, speaks to patient champion and charity leader, Jeremy Taylor for the Health Servce Journal about why she thinks Collaborative Practice could help to save the NHS.
Read MoreOur new brochure explains our innovative model of Collaborative Practice, how it works and how we can work with you to implement it and all the benefits it brings.
Read MoreThis new evaluation shows how Collaborative Practice helped to introduce a new model of integrated healthcare at Oxford Terrace and Rawling Road Practices. Outcomes include a 30% fall in frequent GP attenders..
Read MoreThis recent article from The Canadian Press explores the success so far of the Community Health Centres working to introduce our model of Collaborative Practice, following our work with them last year, with thoughts from some of the health professionals and champions involved.
Read MoreWe love this great resource developed by Alvanley Practice, featured in a case study earlier this year on the Impact Hub. Find out more about how champions and practice staff are working together to develop how they use social prescribing to improve health and wellbeing…
Read MoreIn the spring of 2018 we were invited by the Alliance for Healthier Communities in Ontario to work share out experience and expertise with six Community Health Centres across the province, supporting them to develop our model of Collaborative Practice as part of an 18 month programme…
Read MoreWe are delighted to have been featured in this report by the Innovation Unit and the Health Foundation, which highlights Altogether Better’s model for collaborative practice as a successful approach to scaling innovation within the NHS.
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