DESIGN FOR LIFE
Health and wellbeing provider tackles
Covid-19 with innovative solutions
By Sarah Burns
Full-service creative marketing agency
Thrive is bringing to life an exciting
project with proactive healthcare
organisation, Recovery4Life.
Recovery4Life offers specialist mental
health, risk management and substance
misuse services.
With the company’s roots in primary
care, Recovery4Life identified the potential
workplace implications of the ongoing
Covid-19 pandemic before lockdown was
introduced in March.
In fact, they were early adopters of
Covid-19 testing, thanks to their reactive
approach to monitoring and responding to
emerging trends in primary care.
The Gateshead-based organisation, with a
team of clinical specialists including doctors
and physiotherapists, as well as HR and risk
management experts, identified the need
for a ‘return to work’ app that would allow
employers and employees to manage safer,
healthier workplaces with ease.
The risk management app, already in
the advanced build stages with Thrive’s
developers, will allow employees to login
and identify their Covid-19 symptoms, as
well as their general health and wellbeing,
and external factors such as the potential
symptoms and health of loved ones and
those they’ve been in recent contact with.
From there, the app will send this data –
and a risk-managed ‘score’ – to employers
with guidance about how to safely manage
this employee’s return to work.
More than being an exclusive solution
for the Covid-19 pandemic, the app’s risk
management capabilities allow it to identify
wider potential health concerns and risks
with employees, that may be as a result of
Covid-19 but are health issues that would
otherwise go unresolved.
Thrive director Johnny Woods said: “The
‘return to work’ app is a fantastic project for
our developers, who have created the logic
and functionality needed to identify signs of
mental health distress and alcohol abuse, to
anxiety and even PTSD.
“The app will alert employers to any early
warning signs of such conditions, which are
all on the rise and becoming the increasingly
clear consequences of Covid-19 and the
lockdown, so that employers can manage
their workforces with the appropriate care
and support.”
The project is well on its way to making
a real difference in the management and
implementation of safe Covid-19 workplace
procedures and Recovery4Life couldn’t be
more happier with progress to date.
Alex Devitt, chief operating officer at
Recovery4Life, said: “We’ve worked with
various IT and app specialists, and in
comparison working with Thrive has been
a breeze.
“Every step of the way, Johnny and
the team have been able to understand
the complexity of our requirements and
translate them into a workable solution from
a clinical perspective, which is absolutely not
an easy thing to do.”
Thrive is continuing to support
Recovery4Life with their app, which will
launch soon, and will continue to work on
expanding its functionality and capabilities,
as the pandemic – and its wider implications
– continues to impact normal working
life, as well as supporting the primary care
provider with a revitalised website.
Find out more about Recovery4Life’s work via recovery4life.
co.uk and learn more about full service creative marketing
agency Thrive via thriveability.co.uk.
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