What is Helping Hand?
Helping Hand is our support service designed to empower your clients to take charge of their wellbeing and lead a healthier lifestyle. It provides plan owners with online access to early care medical services, helping them stay healthy and address small health issues before they become a big problem.
Helping Hand can also support the plan owner, or their partner and children if they're going through a serious illness, injury or bereavement. They can get this support whether they make a claim or not.
Helping Hand is included with all our advised protection plans at no extra cost, supporting clients at every stage of life.
Wellbeing support
Helping Hand’s wellbeing support provides your clients with advice on staying fit, looking after the mental wellbeing, and addressing minor health problems.
Wellbeing support starts with a simple health questionnaire from LiveSmart. The questionnaire gives your clients personalised insights to improve their health.
After getting their results back, Helping Hand’s support comes in the form of three services: HealthHero, Thrive, and TrackActiveMe. These services help with mental wellbeing, offer a 24/7 GP service, and also give physiotherapy advice. All of them can be accessed through My Royal London.
HealthHero
HealthHero gives your clients 24/7 access to virtual GP consultations by qualified, experienced, NHS-practising
doctors.
Clients can book a consultation by phone or through the app. They can choose the time of the appointment, whether they’d like a male or female doctor, and if they want a video or phone consultation.
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Welcome to GP 24/7. Speak to a GP 24/7 from anywhere in the world by video or phone.
How can we help you feel better?
Our NHS practising GPs can provide:
- medical advice
- private prescriptions and open referrals
- private fit notes.
Some of the issues our GPs can help with include:
- stomach problems
- dermatology
- ears, nose and throat
- musculoskeletal
- urinary issues
- mental health
- eye and vision care
- heart problems
- men's health
- women's health
- travel and vaccinations advice
- medication queries
- second opinion
- paediatrics
- rheumatology
- respiratory
How can I book a consultation?
Call 0330 043 4759. Our customer service team will take your call. You choose:
- a time and day that suits you
- a male or female doctor (if you have a preference)
- a video or phone consultation.
Or use the app. Go to royallondon.doc24.uk and create an account. Choose consultation type, preferred gender of GP, a convenient time and day. Add your symptoms and book.
Wherever you go, take a GP with you.
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Thrive Mental Wellbeing. Empowering you to live a happier, healthier life.
An NHS-approved app to help you build resilience to stress, reduce anxiety, improve sleep and empower you to self-manage your wellbeing. Through various in-app techniques, screening tools and content, Thrive Mental Wellbeing enables you to prevent, detect and manage mental health conditions.
Who are we?
With over 40 years of combined experience and after creating 50+ hospitals in five years as medical directors, our founders were unsatisfied with the impact they were having in preventing mental health conditions. Now in 2021 with a dedicated and experienced team behind them, Thrive Mental Wellbeing supports over 3.8 million people each year.
- personalised content recommendations
- NHS validated screening tools
- 100+ hours of content
- clinically validated questionnaires and CBT programmes
- completely confidential
- signposts to external support services 24/7.
Over 100+ hours of content built to help keep you well, build resilience to stress and help you tackle any common stressors such as sleep or work pressures.
NHS validated screening tools supporting you at every stage of your journey. These tools can help you spot any signs that you may not be coping well with stress, anxiety or depression and also help prevent mental health conditions.
Track your overall mental wellbeing levels to improve your resilience to stress. Check-in with yourself daily to keep well and work on being the best version of yourself. Completely confidential: all data remains personal and secure.
A full CBT programme to help you better manage your thoughts, feelings and emotions. We want to help you react to situations better, have a more positive outlook and empower you to become more resilient.
Personalised content recommendations helping you to manage your mental wellbeing. The more you use Thrive Mental Wellbeing, the more tailored your recommendations, goals and overall experience will become.
Sign up to the Thrive Mental Wellbeing app today to build resilience and manage your mental wellbeing.
Thrive
Thrive gives your clients personalised mental health advice. It also gives recommendations to help prevent, detect and manage mental health conditions.
TrackActiveMe
Created by physiotherapists, TrackActiveMe assesses musculoskeletal problem such as joint pain to give clients
access to physiotherapy advice and personalised exercises.
Your clients are able to self-refer for these conditions, so they don’t need to visit a GP before getting access to advice.
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Track Active is a physical wellbeing application that serves three main functions to help users improve their physical health. These are prevent, recover, or see or speak to a physiotherapist. Prevention is better than cure and TrackactiveMe is the physical wellbeing App to reduce the risk of developing joint, bone and muscle pain through a chatbot. The App profiles a user based on their age, exercise habits and type of work. Users can then choose a range of programmes developed by physiotherapists and occupational therapists to mobilise and strengthen their body. This includes Pilates, yoga, strengthening and stretching programmes.
Exercises in all programs are low impact and backed by research and data insights to ensure effectiveness and safety. Videos and descriptions of the exercises ensure the correct technique, and there is also a description of the benefits of doing the exercise to stay strong and healthy. Programming is particularly clever, it selects exercises based on the user's profile and continues to adapt the programme with their feedback. This keeps users engaged and improving.
The Office Five and Under Five is a five minute mobility program designed for office workers to prevent back, neck and shoulder pain. This program is designed to be done at the office to break up extended periods of sedentary work which can be detrimental to health. Reminders can be set for any program in the App. Users are prompted to set them after initially completing program. They can also edit them through the Me section.
Physical activity is critical to preventing problems with our physical health. Each week, the World Health Organisation guidelines recommend that we should be doing 150 minutes of aerobic exercise and two strength sessions equating to about 90 minutes of strength exercises. TrackActive users can add and track their weekly physical activity minutes by adding a log of their different activities. Completing certain programs within the Track ActiveMe App also adds to these minutes through our integrations with Apple Health Kit and Google Fit. Users can keep track of their daily step count and try to reach the suggested goal of 10,000 steps each day.
A user can also set other personal goals for themselves, keeping them motivated and on track to better physical health.
Through the chat function, a user can self-assess a joint, muscle or spine problem within a few minutes. The chatbot asks the user questions about their condition and then analyses the answers to provide the likely diagnosis of their problem. It can also identify injuries and conditions that pose any critical risk to their health and provide them alternative pathways of care. These clinical algorithms have been developed by a team of highly experienced clinicians and validated by a leading London University. If an injury has been diagnosed and is considered suitable for advice and self-management, a user is shown educational videos with tips on how to reduce their pain and recover.
A personalised video-based exercise programme is then generated which adapts and progresses with the user feedback. So, if an exercise or program isn't quite right, the App will adjust the programme to be more suitable. Users can log and view their symptoms, the App checks in on the user each time they do their program to get a measure of their symptoms every few days.
The App also asks about their recovery to make sure they are making the expected progress.
TrackActiveMe is the leading application for prevention and recovery of muscle bone and joint pain. Whether it is needed for rehab or wellness, our application is always there to guide and support our users to better physical health and a pain free life.
How to access wellbeing support
Your client can follow these steps to get access to the Helping Hand wellbeing services.
Register for My Royal London
Once your client’s plan starts, they’ll get an email from us inviting them to register for My Royal London.
Fill in the LiveSmart health questionnaire
After logging in to their account, your clients will be asked to complete a brief health questionnaire.
Access wellbeing support and get health report
Your client will then have access to wellbeing support in their My Royal London account and get their health report.
Recovery support
Our partner RedArc is here to support your clients with many different types of recovery. If, at any time, the plan owner or their partner and children, suffer a serious physical or mental illness, injury or bereavement, RedArc will be there to offer support. And they can still get support even if they don’t make a claim.
RedArc will give them regular support from a dedicated nurse. They’ll provide tailored practical advice and emotional support whenever it’s needed, for as long as it’s needed. Their dedicated nurse can also:
- arrange extra services such as therapy, counselling or second medical opinions
- give your clients relevant literature
- signpost to useful organisations.
How to access recovery support
Your clients can find additional information about the support available through RedArc in their My Royal London account. Alternatively, your clients can call us and we’ll be happy to put them in touch with RedArc.
Legal, career, and medical helplines
As well as support for wellbeing and recovery, Helping Hand comes with helplines for advice on legal issues and careers. It also has a helpline for further medical support, including getting a second opinion. And on top of offering support for your clients with their own career, the career helpline can also help out with their business.
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Career advice and help
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Independent legal advice
Frequently asked questions
How much does Helping Hand cost?
Helping Hand comes at no additional cost for all advised protection plan owners.
Who can use Helping Hand?
Helping Hand is available to all advised protection plan owners. Additionally, the RedArc service can be used by the plan owner’s partner and children. Virtual GP services can also be used by clients for their dependent children up to 16 years old.
What benefits does Helping Hand offer?
Helping Hand offers wellbeing support, recovery support and independent helplines for career and legal advice. This includes but is not limited to:
- digital health assessment
- 24/7 GP service
- physiotherapy advice and plans
- mental wellbeing support
- support through physical injury and mental illness
- disability and bereavement support
- recruitment help
- independent legal advice
How quickly can the recruitment specialists find cover for an ill employee?
The recruitment specialists will find a list of suitable candidates within 48 hours if one of your employees is seriously ill and cannot work.
Can the recruitment specialists help with permanent recruitment?
Yes, if an employee can’t come back to work, the recruitment specialists can write a job description and work with recruitment agencies to find a permanent replacement.
What legal issues can the legal helpline advise on?
Helping Hand’s legal helpline can advise on a range of topics including:
- employment law
- shareholder options
- succession planning
- wills and probate.
For full terms, take a look at the terms of use for the legal helpline.
Helping Hand is a package of support services, and each service is provided by third parties that aren’t regulated by the
Financial Conduct Authority or the Prudential Regulation Authority. These services aren’t part of our terms and conditions
and don’t form part of your insurance contract with us, so they can be amended or withdrawn at any time. This means that your client or your clients family’s access to these services could be amended or withdrawn by us in the future.
Read the Helping Hand privacy notice to find out how we use our customers' personal information.
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