The Well Centre Charity is a new social enterprise to advance the health and wellbeing of young people by promoting youth-friendly primary care services across the UK.
Working in partnership with the NHS Well Centre service to spread and scale an innovative and holistic new service model that will improve health services for young people.
The Well Centre model helps primary care services to upskill staff and provide dedicated and expert adolescent health services within the usual service delivery model. It builds a hub and spoke model to ensure young people have an equitable experience of local services and that their needs are met in a holistic way that protects their future health and solves their immediate problems. The Well Centre Charity is helping other services to build their own versions of this model.
We do this through access to consultancy, advice about commissioning, supervision, training and access to resources.
We work in close partnership with the Well Centre clinical delivery team based in Lambeth and led by Dr Stephanie Lamb. To learn more about the service itself, visit www.thewellcentre.org.
Meet the Trustees
Sadru Kheraj
Sadru is a GP partner at the Herne Hill Group Practice in London. He has been a Medical Adviser to a Health Authority and a London Strategic Health Authority. He has also worked as a PCT Medical Director. He has been an adviser for the National Clinical Assessment Service and also an Associate Member of the General Medical Council.
Simon Chapman
Simon is a Consultant in Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at Kings College Hospital, London, specialising in eating disorders, diabetes and endocrinology. He is also national lead for a standard setting group in adolescent eating disorders, and founding trustee of the British Eating Disorders Society. He publishes widely and teaches nationally and internationally. He is particularly interested in coding and practical simple technology ideas that change and improve lives.
John Poyton OBE
John is an experienced social entrepreneur and charity chief executive with a passion for scaling innovation and social impact. He founded the youth work charity Redthread, which was the UK’s first hospital-based violence Intervention Programme for young people, and he co-founded the Well Centre primary care model with Dr Lamb, focussing on preventing and reducing adolescent health inequality.
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