Joy is a platform which helps to establish easier, more streamlined ways of working between the community and care sectors. This means information on local services from Devon Connect can be made available to view on the Joy ‘Marketplace’ to help social prescribers and other health and personalised care roles to refer patients to community-based services and activities that improve people's health and wellbeing.
Joy exists to add 10 years to life expectancy by addressing the social determinants of health. We know people don’t live in hospitals; they live in communities. In fact, your postcode can have more impact on your health than your genetic code.
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So what does this mean for you?
Each time you post an event or community listing on Devon Connect you'll be asked if you'd like to share this activity with the Joy Marketplace. The Joy Marketplace is then used by social prescribers and other health and personalised care roles to signpost patients to local services and activities that could improve their health outcomes.
Here are some of the key benefits of being on Joy:
- It’ll increase the visibility of your service amongst social prescribers and other health and personalised care roles across Devon, who can signpost to your service with a few clicks.
- It’ll make it easier for community organisations to signpost to each other’s services, as well as to refer into other types of local support.
- It’ll help showcase the contribution of local services to health improvements and feed into real-time reports used by Commissioners.
What you need to do:
Devon Connect can automatically share information about your service with Joy – no need to create a new page. All you need to do is sign into Devon Connect, edit your service, and ensure that the ‘share information to Joy’ option is ticked before saving. Your service will be sent over to Joy within the next 24 hours and will automatically update whenever you make changes on Devon Connect.
Changed your mind?
No problem, simply log back in and edit your event or listing and uncheck the "share with Joy option" your activity information will then be removed from the Joy Marketplace 24hrs later.
Frequently asked questions
Social prescribing is a way for local agencies to refer people to a link worker. Link workers give people time, focusing on ‘what matters to me’ and taking a holistic approach to people’s health and wellbeing. They connect people to community groups and statutory services for practical and emotional support.
Only information about an event or community listing that you have specifically consented to send to the Joy marketplace.
This includes only the information you have chosen to make public as part of your activity listing:
- Title
- Description
- Activity URL
- Event / Service location
- Tags
- Contact details
No personal or account information that doesn't exist as part of your activity is sent to the Joy marketplace.
We've developed an API using the Open Referral Standard to send information on events and community listings to Joy.
Only those listings that are opted in are sent.
Only Joy has access to this API via a secure Token.
For more information about how this data is transferred, stored and who by please read our updated Privacy Policy.
Want to find out more about Joy and it's marketplace? Visit thejoyapp.com/about