We hope you are well and enjoying seeing Spring finally starting to peek through. Brighter mornings and brighter days are most definitely ahead! Here's a round-up of what Elemental got up to in February and what's coming down the tracks in March.

March is Social Prescribing Month!

We exhibited at the The 3rd International Social Prescribing Conference 

Here are our Top Ten Takeaways

The 3rd International Social Prescribing Conference ran over two days on the 4th and 5th of March and it was the first year that the conference was hosted online. The conference was as always, a well organised and thought provoking event that brilliantly showcased the impacts of social prescribing through a range of talks and sessions.

If you missed the conference, never fear, here are our Top Ten Takeaways.

Our favourite day of the year, International Social Prescribing Day!

Social Prescribing Day (scheduled 18th of March 2021) is an international event aiming to foster an attitudinal change, to shift the power to the people and local communities, to forge cross-sectoral collaboration, to promote co-design and co-creation, and to ensure social prescribing continues to grow as a grassroots movement. You can join the celebrations by sharing how you'll be taking part via the official hashtag #SocialPrescribingDay

You can also follow us on Twitter here, where we'll be giving away a host of useful social prescribing resources including ebooks, infographics, podcasts, videos, customer interviews and more.

Elemental announced as winners in Tech Nation Rising Stars Awards

We are delighted to have been announced as a Tech Nation’s Rising Stars 3.0 winner. Out of over 330 applicants, Elemental has been named amongst the 10 winners of the prestigious competition that celebrates innovative, scaling tech companies across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. 

What everyone can learn from the North Wales Social Prescribing model

Elemental’s CEO and Co-founder Jennifer Neff, shares why she feels organisations in North Wales are global, digital exemplars for social prescribing thanks to their social prescribing model, committed partnership working and enhancing their programmes through social prescribing software. Read all about it in Jennifer's guest blog here.

Holgate Primary Care Network (PCN) partner with Elemental to enhance their social prescribing and population health programmes

Holgate PCN has partnered with Elemental, in a bid to improve efficiencies in their Population Health Management programme and enhance the effectiveness of cross sector, multidisciplinary teams, on project based work. Read all about it over on our blog here.

Elemental announce innovative new partnership with Meaningful Measures

Elemental Software has joined forces with Meaningful Measures to provide greater social prescribing data analysis using MYCaW (Measure Your Concerns and Wellbeing). Elemental are delighted to be the first social prescribing software provider to digitally embed the MYCaW questionnaire as a validated measurement tool from within our platform to support its use and scale across social prescribing.

Elemental chosen as social prescribing software provider in a bid to enhance social prescribing in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire

A unique partnership has been set up in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) to make it easier for people to access a range of non-medical support in their own communities. Sirona care & health, provider of adult and children’s community services across BNSSG, local GP surgeries, the BNSSG Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), One Care (the local GP federation) and Elemental will work closely together to connect communities and empower individuals through a collaborative digital social prescribing project. Read more here.

Upcoming Events

Elemental Open Lounge

Last month, we launched the Elemental Open Lounge – Our weekly digital social prescribing showcase which is held once a week, 12pm - 1pm, during the months of February and March.

We'll be giving you an exclusive look at the functionality of our award-winning digital social prescribing platform, including:

• Express referral 
• Triaging of patients
• Day to day task management for Link Workers
• Case management
• Our monitoring and reporting suite
• Our in-built Directory of Services
• How Elemental supports reporting on DES PCN funding for social prescribing
• Organisations currently leading the way in digital social prescribing
• How Elemental can customise our platform based on your local needs e.g hub set up and data flow
• How the platform supports social prescribing projects to produce reports for Commissioners

Book your place for next week here.

Webinar: How Elemental and EMIS can reduce GP workload and help you better support your patients

Over 100 Primary Care Networks are now able to make, manage, and report on patient referrals to local Social Prescribing Link Workers through the Elemental Connector Plus. The Elemental Connector Plus is a unique two way integration between EMIS Web and Elemental that has been accredited and approved by EMIS. Join us Tuesday March 23rd – 3pm – 4pm as we showcase how this groundbreaking enhancement is reducing GP workload and helping them to better support their patients.

Our new Social Prescribing Podcast Series

is now LIVE!

The Week in Social Prescribing is Elemental's new weekly podcast series, designed to keep you informed and up to date with what’s happening in the world of social prescribing. We’ll have a range of guests from various sectors each week to share their thoughts and insights on all things social prescribing. You can catch our first podcast with Elemental CEO, Jennifer Neff here.