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13/01/2012

Achilles Utilities Vendor Database

Wellpoint Group Limited has joined the Achilles Utilities Vendor Database. Achilles provides buyers with a supplier information system for identifying and selecting potential suppliers, through to pre-qualifying, evaluating and performance monitoring at each important stage towards continuous management of risk throughout the supply chain.

Wellpoint’s Supplier Number is 707968.
26/09/2011

Lloydspharmacy Health Village

Wellpoint Group Limited are proud to be a part of the new Lloydspharmacy Health Village at Brent Cross.

The Health Village is the place where the focus is on YOUR health and well-being is the paramount focus of the Health Village. It brings you face to face with a world of services to maintain a healthy mind and body.

In one place you can have a consultation with a pharmacist to a session with a physiotherapist to a face-to-face video consultation with a doctor.
05/05/2011

North Lincs Council

North Lincs Council have awarded Wellpoint a three year contract to support Public Health initiatives across North Lincs Council and to support Employee Health.

North Lincs Council will encourage all local authority employees to have regular health checks as part of their Employee Wellbeing Programme.

The Wellpoint is targeted to be deployed in a new build, high quality sporting facility (The Pods) in Scunthorpe in the summer of 2011.
15/04/2011

TAP into Change4Life

TAP into Change4Life is a Change4Life project based in Wakefield. It is jointly sponsored by Wakefield District Council, NHS Wakefield and Change4Life. It is an eighteen month obesity management project to evaluate the impact of 31 local Change4Life projects in three areas of Wakefield -

• Kinsley and Fitzwilliam
• Eastmoor
• Airedale

Wellpoint is at the centre of the evaluation acting as recruitment for the project and also evaluating the success of the project in terms of health gains (whether they be weight or blood pressure reduction).

Wakefield are using Wellpoint’s Service Matrix to signpost users via a questionnaire to local Change4Life projects.

As part of the evaluation the Wellpoint units are deployed in three different community settings.

• A community centre in Fitzwilliam
• A Food Hall in Wakefield market
• A local pharmacy in Airedale

With the changes in Public Health proposed for 2013 this project could help inform how the delivery of Public Health can take place through an innovative approach.
25/02/2011

Wellpoint at The Healthcare Innovation EXPO 2011

Healthcare Innovation Expo 2011 is the premier event for health and social care commissioners and providers. Wellpoint will be attending, showcasing two of our Health Kiosks in the Department of Health’s i-Neighbourhood stand. The EXPO runs over the 9th and 10th March at ExCeL London, so come and visit Wellpoint and try one of our Health Kiosks. Please click here for more details of the EXPO.
15/02/2011

National Grid use Wellpoint kiosks in Morrisons Pharmacies

National Grid has formed a partnership with Morrisons to allow its field based staff to use Wellpoint kiosks to monitor their health. This gives their field based workforce the same access to Wellpoint kiosks as they would in National Grid offices. National Grid encourages staff to use the Wellpoint kiosk three times a year. Click here for more details.
3/11/2010

Wellpoint and Change4Life

With the coalition government seeking to reduce costs and get the best value for money from all sectors. The Change4Life remit is to tackle the obesity epidemic on a national level using, wherever possible, local champions. Wellpoint was the logical choice by Wakefield Council to recruit and signpost to the 35 local Change4Life projects within the Wakefield area. The project will continue until March 2012 and will provide a case study for Change4Life.
13/10/2010

Pharmacy Show 2010

We will be attending the Pharmacy Show, on the 10th and 11th of October. There will be more than 220 suppliers and 50 world accredited conference senior executives, regulators, top policy-makers.