Healthcare

A low income is no longer regarded as the sole indicator of overall poverty. Health poverty can have a far reaching impact from childhood and throughout adult life.

Wherever possible, we aim to join up our health and social care services with other provision such as welfare to work and financial inclusion, enabling us to employ multiple interventions to improve the lives of both individuals and families.

Moving Incapacity Benefit claimants into work - our Pathways to Work and Connect to Work programmes combine employability skills training with support to manage health conditions via a Condition Management Programme. We communicate directly with employers to tackle any negative perceptions surrounding employing a person with a disability or serious health condition. On an individual client basis we liaise with employers to ensure that their work practices will provide a positive working environment for participants.

Widening access to health services - A4e is helping to tackle health poverty through our delivery of the Community Outreach and Family Support Service (COFFS) on behalf of Aston Pride - a New Deal for Communities area and the Heart of Birmingham NHS Trust.  The COFFS Service was specifically developed to increase local access to health and social care, reduce infant mortality and increase life expectancy. The COFFS project manages the delivery of both individual and family based support services.

Promoting Independent Living - A4e delivers Direct Payment Support Services on behalf of 12 local authorities. The service enables people in receipt of health and social care services to employ their own carers, allowing people to take control of the care that they receive. We currently support over 5,000 Service Users across the UK.

If you’d like to know more about these services please get in touch or call us on 0800 345 666.

News & Comment

Thought Leadership

A4e's William J. Fear recently had an article published in the June 2009 issue of 'The Psychologist', the official monthly publication of the British Psychological Society. The article entitled 'Return to Work' Revisited argues that people on incapacity benefit need a psychosocial intervention rooted in self-efficacy. The article can be downloaded from here [PDF, 55.42KB]. 
'The Psychologist' can be found by following this link www.thepsychologist.org.uk