Simply Connect

The Infrastructure That Makes Neighbourhood Health Real.

Neighbourhood health only works when the NHS, local authorities and the voluntary sector are truly connected. Simply Connect is the only community infrastructure platform built to make that happen at scale, with evidence, and delivering it with the communities it serves.

Company Profile

The Government’s Neighbourhood Health Framework is unambiguous: delivering care closer to home requires genuine partnership across the NHS, local authorities and the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector. It requires shared infrastructure, trusted referral pathways, and the ability to coordinate support across organisational boundaries.

That is exactly what Simply Connect was built to do.

Simply Connect is the UK’s leading community infrastructure platform for coordinating whole-person care, social prescribing and volunteering across health, government and the community sector.

We are not a directory. We are not a referral form. We are the connective tissue that enables statutory services to work seamlessly with the VCSE sector giving every partner direct, real-time access to quality-assured community provision.

Our place-based solutions are designed for the realities of neighbourhood health delivery. Whether you are a Primary Care Network, an Integrated Care Board, a local authority or a combined authority, Simply Connect gives you the infrastructure to break down silos, coordinate care across partners, and deliver measurable outcomes at population scale.

Over 150,000 voluntary and community organisations use Simply Connect. More than 250.000 people have used our platforms to refer themselves, their patients or their clients into community services or to volunteer their time in support of their NHS and their neighbours. Our platforms are embedded in NHS referral pathways, local authority systems, and VCSE networks across the United Kingdom.

What our community infrastructure delivers

• A system which is built for Neighbourhood Collaboration.
• NHS-ready volunteering platforms coordinating health-supporting volunteers at system scale.
• Quality-assured community referral pathways embedded within the community giving link workers, social prescribers, community nurses and social care teams a safe, trusted route into VCSE provision.
• Supported self-referral journeys with built-in feedback and outcomes measurement giving patients real choice and agency in their care.
• Social prescribing case management, designed for and with VCSE organisations.
• Case management tools for the VCSE sector.
• Integration with NHS and social care systems, enabling seamless cross-sector data flows.
• Commissioner dashboards providing real-time intelligence on demand, gaps, demographics and impact.

Built for what’s coming next

We are developing AI-powered personalised referral and predictive analytics with clinical safety and ethics built in Our product lead is completing a Masters in AI Ethics and Society at the University of Cambridge. That is not incidental to how we build technology: it is central to it. We are committed to innovation that earns trust, not just adoption.

Simply Connect is not a large corporate with a community health division. We are specialists a team whose entire focus is on the infrastructure that makes neighbourhood health possible.

Our partners do not get a module within a broader platform. They get a dedicated team, a collaborative roadmap, and a community infrastructure that is already working at scale.

Want to find out more about how we work collaboratively across the system? Read our case study HERE