WELLBEING ENTERPRISES CIC AND WARRINGTON & HALTON TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FT SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 HSJ PARTNERSHIP AWARDS
Wellbeing Enterprises CIC is delighted to announce that Long Covid Service has been shortlisted for Most Effective Contribution to Improving Care for those with Long Term Conditions at the HSJ Partnership Awards, recognising an outstanding dedication to improving healthcare and effective collaboration with the NHS.
Now in their eighth year, the HSJ Partnership Awards have become the most recognised and respected mark of the strongest relationships between suppliers and the NHS.
Following the thorough judging process, Wellbeing Enterprises CIC was included in 180+ organisations, projects and individuals that made the final shortlist amid 280+ entries logged for the 2025 awards programme.
Working collaboratively, Wellbeing Enterprises CIC and Warrington NHS FT have co-designed a Long Covid Service with patients adopting a biopsychosocial model of care. Link Workers integrated with the clinical team provide holistic assessments of needs/strengths and co-develop/implement Personalized Wellbeing Plans. We’ve supported 252 patients so far with robust evidence of sustainable health outcomes. Patients have access to social prescriptions like bibliotherapy resources, NHS approved Apps, self-help groups and wellbeing activities. This service is an excellent example of an NHS and social enterprise health innovation which is improving health outcomes for patients with this long-term condition and building strengths/capabilities.
Mark Swift, Founder and CEO at Wellbeing Enterprises CIC comments, “I’m over the moon Wellbeing Enterprises CIC has been shortlisted alongside NHS Cheshire and Merseyside (Halton Place). It is a huge boost for our dedicated and hard-working team.
Wellbeing Enterprises is delivering demonstrable improvements in health and wellbeing by helping people to help themselves overcome challenges, build their capabilities and live a valued, dignified life”.
Dr David Lyon, GP and Clinical Lead for Long Covid Service said: “Wellbeing Enterprises CIC has been the cornerstone of therapy for the Long Covid Service in Halton and Warrington from the very start. Wellbeing Enterprises provides vital psychosocial support to distressed people whose lives have been turned upside down, physically, financially, socially and psychologically. They measure outcomes diligently and are able to demonstrate the positive impact they have. Wellbeing Enterprises help people with Long Covid to manage their condition better, rather than the condition overwhelming them. They have proven themselves to be an integral and essential part of the service.”
The selected winners will be announced during the awards ceremony at Evolution London on 20th March 2025.
The 2025 awards judging panel was once again made up of a diverse range of highly influential and respected figures within the healthcare community, including; May Mengyu Li, Director of Efficiency, NHS England, Janos Suto, Deputy Director, Urgent and Emergency Care Analysis and Performance, DHSC, Amanda Pleavin, Managing Director, East of England Cancer Alliance, Jacqui Bunce, Programme Director – Strategic Partnerships, Planning and Estates, Lincolnshire ICS, Caroline Taylor, Chair, National Association of Primary Care, and Alan Duffell, Group Chief People Officer, The Royal Wolverhampton Trust & Walsall Healthcare Trust.
The full list of nominees for the 2025 HSJ Partnership Awards can be found at https://partnership.hsj.co.uk/finalists-2025
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NOTES TO EDITORS
For more information/media enquiries relating to the 2025 Partnership Awards, please contact Rebecca Bright on [email protected] or tel: +44 20 7608 9056.
For more information relating to Wellbeing Enterprises CIC please contact James Smith, Operations Manager / Communications Lead on [email protected] or tel: +44 1928 589 799.
ABOUT THE HSJ AWARDS
The HSJ Partnership Awards recognise the most effective collaborations with the NHS and highlight the benefits that working with the private and third sectors can bring to patients and NHS organisations.
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