Joy Vs Simply Connect Vs Access Elemental – Which digital social prescribing platform is best for you?

Joy Vs Access Elemental Vs Simply Connect – defining who they are: 

All three platforms operate using cloud-based systems. This is important as it helps organisations run and deliver their services to improve their community’s health and wellbeing, enabling social prescribing projects to grow and scale quickly. Here the platforms can take into consideration multiple funding streams, whilst creating referral pathways that are safe, secure, and accurate.

Joy Vs Access Elemental Vs Simply Connect – What services do they offer? 

There are a variety of things to look out for and consider when deciding which platform is best for you. Below is a table comparing all three top providers to show what each has to offer. It compares some of the most important areas including: the accessibility of each software, its functions, particularly looking at their interoperability and Directory of Services as well as the support services they provide.  

From the table above it is clear that, all three offer a variety of metrics to record and track data from clients’ social prescribing journeys.  

Access Elemental offers a variety of report types per licensee to allow users full access in analysing the different areas of their social prescribing project. Both Joy and Access Elemental offer users the opportunity to customize reports to meet their individual needs.  Some of the main reports we offer at Access Elemental Social Prescribing include: 

• Client Journey Report – This report allows you to monitor all clients within a project including their pre and post scores of their health journey, their prescriptions to interventions, and case notes. 
• Client/Case Activity repot – This report is a high-level report showing on month-by-month basis the number of new cases and referrals as well as the number of interventions clients were prescribed to each month. 

• Attendance/impact report – this report shows the number of clients that have been attending the various interventions they have been prescribed to. 
• Health Impact Report – This report demonstrates the true value and impact social prescribing has had on all the clients in your programme. All tracking of information is presented in either red or green rating. For example, information presented in green shows an overall positive change has been achieved and information in red shows the average overall change has not been positive.  

We also offer a variety more reports including: intervention activity report, equality monitoring, programme report, activity report and case management report. 

Both Joy and Access Elemental provide details on what other software their social prescribing services can integrate with, but Simply Connect’s information regarding integrations is limited. Unlike the other providers, Access Elemental’s integrations with clinical systems update patient records instantaneously whereas others can take hours to update.  

All three providers however offer functionality to develop, manage and update directory of services within their platforms to make it easier for PCNs, local authorities, and housing associations.   

At Access Elemental one of our customers, Age Barnet UK has been using our Case Management System, and GP Connector Plus module to improve their accessibility and diversity of services available. Through using Access Elemental Social Prescribing, they have been able to gain a better understanding of the local community, including reasons for referral to identify gaps in services and adapt quicker as needs change.

Through our data reports they can easily identify out of their 48 GP practices which are engaging with social prescribing, allowing a better proactive social prescribing approach by encouraging GPs and Health Allied Professionals to increase their social prescribing engagement to improve community’s health and reduce pressure on primary care services.

At Access Elemental Social Prescribing we are also aware and understand how time is valuable whether you are a Link Worker, Clinician, or another volunteer within the VCFSE sector. We know that saving time on admin to allow more time to be spent co-producing more effective social prescribing journeys is crucial therefore to achieve the best outcomes. Our latest integrations with other Access Products in our HSC portfolio allow better safe and assured pathways to be created by providing the only scalable ICB-wide platform to which other providers don’t have access.

Through integrating with our Access Rio EPR (electronic patient record) and our Social Care Case Management Solution, Access Mosaic, clinicians and social care professionals can have the reassurance that they are referring patients to safe and appropriate services, as well as allowing them to track both the services patients have attended and the impact these services have had, all in one place. It is expected this will save clinical time by approximately 20% as well as improve communications between clinicians and Link Workers to get the best outcomes.  

The referrals made to Access Elemental via Access Mosaic are pre-populated with the client’s information so admin time for the Mosaic Social Care Professional is reduced and helps to reduce the likelihood of social care teams referring clients to out-of-date community activities to ensure the best outcomes. Life Rooms is the first NHS Trust to have interoperability with Rio and Elemental and their clinicians have seen their time spent dealing with social issues reduced by a staggering 70%

Through this integration, all Access Mosaic users have better access to what community programmes and services are available in their area, as well as be able to communicate with the Social Prescribing Link Worker more qualitatively. To make it even easier to use Access Mosaic, users, and social care professionals also have the choice to configure the Access Elemental tab wherever they prefer for better navigation and ease when making referrals.

For more information on our recent integration with Access Mosaic contact us today where we can share our recent webinar explaining the benefits of this integration further and how it helps to reduce pressure on social workers through better utilisation of local preventative services.  

Access Elemental Social Prescribing  

Access Elemental provides 4 main tools that can all be used interchangeably depending on your community’s needs.   

All the tools available aim to provide a digital platform to empower organsiations to establish, scale, and better measure the uptake of social prescribing services and the improvements to your community’s health and wellbeing.

The software is easily implemented to make measuring social prescribing more effective by helping secure future funding by tracking your Return on investment (ROI) and avoiding using multiple systems or manual processes to input all your information.

It offers fully flexible referral pathways to suit all community and wellbeing programs and integrates with leading clinical systems to make and manage referrals to social prescribing link workers in as little as three clicks.

Access Elemental Analytics tools also allows bespoke dashboards to be created for each client to make tracking progress of what matters to them even easier and in one place.   

Access Elemental Social Prescribing also integrates to work with 3rd parties to make managing social prescribing referrals even easier. This allows both GP surgeries and Social Prescribing Link Workers to send information back and forth across their systems. Allowing both end-users to be able to send back free text, send back attachments, and be able to use additional SNOMED codes, helps social prescribing journeys can be managed better, especially now they are getting more complex.

Through being able to send both push and pull notifications on the systems, not only do Social Prescribing Link Workers have a stronger position within Multi-Disciplinary Teams, but it also helps encourage clinical groups to participate more in social prescribing to provide better-standardised evidence for social prescribing.

More recently, joining the PRSB Joint Partnership Scheme, Access Elemental Social Prescribing helps to ensure all their customers are better informed and prepared for the release of the new social prescribing standards.

As one of the only social prescribing software providers designed by people who have had prior experience with social prescribing, time and efficiency are a major priority for the Access Elemental team. We make sure that onboarding can be as quick as 6 weeks to ensure you have the tools you need straight away instead of taking up to a year, as well as offer opportunities to monitor staff performance to improve staff enablement and help your services improve their outcomes further.

Simply Connect 

Simply Connect social prescribing software supports practitioners across numerous health and social care settings aiming to improve case management, health and wellbeing assessments, and task management. It is a multi-partner system to support collaborative working across organisations and offers modules to tailor the system to suit the needs of the organization at an additional cost.  

Simply Connect has a variety of tools to make managing and delivering social prescribing across health and social care sectors more efficient. Its quick and easy referral route provides support to healthcare professionals to connect patients to link workers or verified community services.    

From recording patient details, referrals, and health improvements into one dashboard its inbuilt wellbeing measurement tools enables progress to be monitored. Its case management makes keeping client’s information up to date easy and allows relevant support plans to be uploaded so clients get the most out of their social prescribing journey.   

How much does Joy, Access Elemental and Simply Connect social prescribing software cost? 

Due to the different functionality each of these social prescribing platforms offer the cost of having one can differ.  

Simply Connect’s platform is beneficial for smaller social prescribing services as its pricing only shows costs for up to 300 referrer licences. Whereas both Joy and Access Elemental offer costing breakdowns for population sizes of areas.  

Joy charges separately for their case management system and marketplace solution. Whereas Simply Connect and Access Elemental include directory of services in their main package. Some social prescribing software can be more expensive in the first year due to including training, consultancy, planning and the implementation of the platform in the set price. Others offer a fixed rate.  

All of these social prescribing platforms offer customisable options at an additional cost to create your own bespoke packages according to your community’s needs.  

So, when deciding which platform is best for you, it is important to consider what do you need from a digital social prescribing platform, which ones offer support for those needs, and which offer it at the best value for money. For information on our pricing packages that can be available to you, contact us today.