A guide to Helpforce Companions

How this guide will help you

In this guide we describe the Helpforce Companions project which is a key component of Helpforce's Back to Health framework, designed to encourage volunteers to support health and wellbeing in primary care. Building on its success in working with hospital trusts, Helpforce has, over the past 18 months, been supporting a pilot project at three GP practices in West London.

It will help you decide if a similar service would benefit your organisation, and to consider how to adapt the service to your environment.

Adapting and adopting an existing volunteer service model provides great value in terms of knowing that it is tried and tested. You can learn from other organisations' experiences and best practice is already established. Having evidence of a similar service's impact can also help you get buy-in from key stakeholders in your organisation.

For the full guide please download the attached PDF

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