We support people to lead independent, healthy lives
We support people to lead independent, healthy lives
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Specialists in Community Health and Care
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award winning social enterprise providing integrated health and social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams and West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon and Cornwall. We are at the forefront of integrating health and social care, which means that we care for people in new ways that are more efficient, with health and social care professionals who would have previously worked in individual teams now working together. This helps us to deliver the right care for people, in the right place and at the right time.
You will find our teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, health and wellbeing hubs, at community events and even at football matches.
In 2019 Livewell Southwest was inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and received a rating of ‘good’ overall. Our mental health inpatient unit (Glenbourne) and our community learning disabilities team received an exceptional rating of ‘outstanding’.
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Our Performance
Livewell Southwest constantly monitors the services it provides to ensure we are delivering the right care and support to people, at the right time, and in the right place. We have used this information to produce a simple snapshot of our performance. Please see our Quality Accounts to take a look at our performance in 2023/24.
We also regularly ask our service users to provide us with feedback on their experience of using our services. You can view the recent reviews of our services on the right hand side of this page.
Our Mission
Our mission is to support people to stay well in the place and the community in which they live, where they can enjoy the best quality of life.
Wellbeing Is Our Priority
Wellbeing is our priority: healthy people and healthy communities are vital and our long term investment priority.
Our Commitment
Our commitment is to implement new ways of working to significantly reduce the need for hospital bed-based care, including people with complex needs, by wrapping our services around home and community-based care.
Latest News
CROP gardens helping people to grow and flourish through horticultural therapy
Nestled in the heart of the city of Plymouth is a very special site – CROP gardens, a green space providing horticultural therapy to adults with the aim of improving their mental wellbeing. CROP forms part of the offer from STEPS, a community therapies service...
Visiting patients at Livewell sites
In line with national guidance, we are once again allowing some limited visiting to patients at Livewell sites, in a safe and COVID secure way. To keep everyone safe, we are limiting visitors to one per patient, for one hour, once a day. Under compassionate...
Temporary change in leadership at Livewell Southwest
Dr Adam Morris, Livewell’s Chief Executive Officer, has been appointed Interim Chief Executive at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Trust and is due to take up this post at the beginning of May for a period of six months. In his absence, Michelle Thomas, Deputy Chief Executive...
How Livewell #breakthebias this International Women’s Day
Livewell Southwest is proud to be a leader in #breakingthebias around female inequality and discrimination in the workplace; Employing over 2,200 employees identifying as female, that make up well over two thirds of our entire workforce. Over 1,980 of our colleagues...
Lawrence Badman-Richards exhibits at The Box Plymouth
Where Am I? Livewell's Lawrence Badman-Richards exhibits at The Box Plymouth As well as being one of our practice teachers in Adult Social Care, teaching, supervising and assessing students and newly qualified social workers in Livewell, Lawrence Badman-Richard is...