Our current projects
Helpforce works with a wide range of partners in health, care and the community. This page tells you about our current projects and partners.
We are working with 45 organisations on over 100 projects – developing volunteering services that solve important challenges and evaluating their impact. We are in partnership with hospitals, hospices and organisations in the community.
You can see the full list of our current partner organisations below, following an introduction to two featured partnerships: our brand new ICS Back to Health programme and our continuing project with George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and other trusts in the Foundation Group.
Working with ICSs to support up to 200,000 people
ICS Back to Health Programme
About the programme:
Building on our existing pioneering work with six ICSs, Helpforce is developing major volunteering projects to generate learning across the system: the ICS Back to Health programme.
Our partners:
Funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, we are currently signing up ICSs to work with us.
Objectives:
- Share learning and good practice
- Call 40,000 people before or after hospital treatment
- Refer 30,000 people for support from local community services
- Support more than 20,000 people's recovery in hospital
- Help 10,000 medically fit people get home from hospital faster
Duration:
The project will run for three years, starting in 2024
Integration across place at scale
Back to Health Pathway – George Eliot Hospital
About the project:
Based on Helpforce’s established Back to Health Framework, Helpforce supported George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust (GEH) to develop and evaluate a pathway of volunteering services across the hospital and community.
Our partners:
GEH, Warwickshire North Place Based Partnership
Key outcomes:
- Over 40,000 people supported
- 111 weeks of productivity gain
- 5.8% reduction in missed appointments
Duration:
The initial phase lasted two years and the project is now being extended to other hospitals, with the introduction of AI tools to target volunteers’ calls to people awaiting treatment.
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Our current partners
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Ardgowan Hospice, Greenock
- Bath Royal United Hospital
- Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Cheshire East ICP
- Compton Care, Wolverhampton
- Cornwall and Isles of Scilly ICB
- County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust
- Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust
- East Kent Health and Care Partnership
- East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
- East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- East Sussex Trust
- Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice, Huddersfield
- Foundation Group
- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
- Gloucester ICB
- Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust
- Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Norfolk and Waveney ICB
- NHS England
- NHS Kent and Medway
- Norfolk and Waveney Health and Care Partnership
- North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
- North East and North Cumbria ICB
- North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
- North West London ICB
- Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
- Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
- Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
- South Central Ambulance Charity
- South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust
- St Michael’s Hospice, Herefordshire
- Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
- Sussex ICB
- The Lighthouse
- Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
- University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
- West London NHS Trust
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