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GP Services have a particularly powerful role to play in the health of our communities. However, we are acutely aware of the fact we only have the ability to affect certain aspects. Patients’ financial stability, housing, educational and job opportunities, family support networks and other social care arrangements all have important influences in their lives.

We believe that working with Social Enterprises allows us a route into delivering a more holistic and cohesive model of care. Examples include our work with the following organisations:

Breakthrough Art are a charity we have recently started working with. They promote positive mental health through the creative arts. We are taking art from a number of their artists and installing it in all of our practices. As well as showcasing the talent of these emerging artists, it also helps to brighten the environment for patients attending our surgeries, turning each waiting room into a gallery.
http://breakthroughmhart.com

Chapel Street is a Community Interest Company with whom we provide GP Services at our Cassidy Road Surgery site in Fulham. A proportion of practice income is donated to a variety of activities provided by them, both at the practice and in the local area, to enhance the care and engagement of particularly vulnerable patients. The Chapel Street team also run the Hurley Group Leadership Training Programme for GPs, Nurses and Managers. 
http://chapelst.org/healthcare

City Gateway help disadvantaged local young people and women in Tower Hamlets gain the skills and opportunities they need to enter work or further education. With City Gateway we provide apprenticeship placements in the Hurley Group to help young people gain employment and possibly a long-term career within a Hurley Group practice.
www.citygateway.org.uk/apprenticeships

Education Links Project was developed by Dr Clare Gerada and remains based at the Hurley Clinic site in Kennington. The Hurley Group employs six school teachers who deliver the health education programme for primary and secondary schools in Lambeth. This innovative programme involves taking clinicians volunteering their time from the Hurley into schools every week to demystify health-related issues for children. It has been widely acclaimed as an inspirational model for the delivery of health education to schools.
Healthy Minds is a sister project again developed and based at the Hurley Clinic. The team works with 30 Lambeth schools in tackling bullying through training teachers and, more importantly, the children themselves in peer mediation and conflict resolution.
www.younglambeth.org/organisation/healthy-minds.html

Foodbank are a network of local centres where food is available for those in immediate need. Food items are collected from the public, supermarkets, local churches, local group and schools. Individuals and families that are eligible for a food package will receive a voucher that can be obtained from most Hurley Group surgeries.
www.hffb.org  or www.trusselltrust.org

Mudchute Farm is based on 32 acres just south of Canary Wharf and is supported by the Hurley Group, most recently at our annual picnic. The charity’s objectives are the education of young people, animal welfare and to preserve a natural environment. Support of organisations such as this form part of our sustainability objectives along with other initiatives such as the Hurley Group’s cycle to work scheme.
www.mudchute.org/about-us

Poplar and Limehouse Community Interest Company is a network of GP Practices in Tower Hamlets that are working with Hurley Group to improve the care of patients registered at the All Saints Practice on the Robin Hood Gardens Estate. Two other Hurley practices also work with this group to employ Health Trainers for the local community.

Turning Point and the Hurley Group are working together to deliver substance misuse services in the London Borough of Westminster. Substance Misuse Management has been close to the Hurley Group’s identity for the last 10 years with Clare Gerada having set up the RCGP Training Course for GPs.
www.turning-point.co.uk/servicesthatchangelives/Pages/ServiceInfo.aspx?ct_id=245