The power of curiosity and connection
We value collaboration and co-production with diverse voices to maximise our impact and foster genuine connection. We champion courageous thinking and bold ideas to explore new possibilities, going beyond traditional healthcare delivery to create authentic personalised support that people want and need.
Grounded in curiosity and openness, we learn, grow, and evolve together.
How can I build co-design into my research or service?
We use our extensive experience in co-design and participatory research to support and guide you to embed co-design in your research and healthcare practice by developing a support offer bespoke to your needs.
How can I upskill my team to deliver effective personalised support?
We work with you to integrate effective principles and language of self-management support into all activities and interactions with people who use your services. Through high quality training and support with expert lived and clinical facilitators, Bridges becomes ‘a way of being’ for your staff and team culture.
What makes Bridges so effective?
We use evidence from our research, and experience of supporting thousands of health and care practitioners, to deliver training for healthcare teams. This leads to a step change in the quality of personalised self-management support that starts from the first interaction. We know how to support teams to integrate Bridges. Teams experience an immediate benefit to their own workload and job purpose and see an impact on the people they support.
How do I sustain this way of working?
We know what supports sustainability. It’s not a single process, but creating a community and culture within teams. This means training is just your first stage, we provide ongoing support and build a longer term relationship with you to sustain the impact.
Bridges can help you to achieve a different way of working
Whether it’s through our high-quality supported self-management training for health and care practitioners, our co-design and research support, our quality improvement projects, or our implementation and sustainability support, we work with people to embed long-lasting changes to practice.
Our Community
We are gaining more rich and valuable team bonding time from our Bridges experience than I estimate 10 or even 100 hours of formal meeting time could bring us!Allied Health Professions Consultant in Stroke, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Thank you so much, the Bridges approach has transformed the interactions I have with patients and feedback from them would suggest that they feel heard!Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist, Community Rehabilitation Team, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust
I was feeling overwhelmed at work, and my colleague asked me to tell her what the issues were, she really listened to me and asked me “what one small thing you could do that would make you feel more in control? ”it made me feel so much better, but then I realised “I had been Bridged!Senior Therapist
Professionally they have all embraced the training and transformed it into their everyday practice, there is a sense of sharing ideas in self-management for patients and some of them are already making the changes when they’re talking to our clients.Clinical Lead and Senior Nurse Diabetes Services
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Our Projects
Bridges Stories
Beyond the schoolyard: The power of kinship and collective creativity
Small steps and trusting in the reason why: 10 years of Bridges
One kind thing makes all the difference.
