What if looking after your health was about more than going to the gym or seeing your doctor?
Hillbrow Health & Wellbeing brings healthcare, physical activity and wellbeing closer together, creating more opportunities for you to look after your health at different stages of life.
You might come to Hillbrow because you want to get fitter, swim, exercise, play sport or simply feel better.
You might be recovering from an injury or illness, managing a health condition or looking for support to become more active.
Or you might be healthy today and simply want to stay that way.
Wherever you are starting from, Hillbrow is designed to help you take the next step.
Your health. Your journey.
Everyone’s health journey is different.
What you need today may not be what you need tomorrow.
That’s why Hillbrow is centred around you, helping you find the right opportunities and support as your health, fitness and circumstances change.
You could start with everyday physical activity and wellbeing. You may then need additional support to become more active, or access to healthcare or rehabilitation.
Rather than having to navigate these different things on your own, Hillbrow brings people, professionals, facilities and services closer together.
Gain. Regain. Maintain.
Wherever your journey starts, Hillbrow is here to help you move forward.
Gain
Opportunities to build better health, fitness, confidence and wellbeing.
Regain
Support and opportunities to help you return to activity following a change in health or circumstances.
Maintain
Ways to make physical activity and looking after your health part of everyday life.
How can Hillbrow help you?
One Hillbrow
One connected approach to your health
At Hillbrow, physical activity, health support and healthcare may serve different needs, but they share the same purpose: supporting the best possible health for our community.
For one person, their Hillbrow journey may begin with swimming, sport, the gym or an exercise class.
For another, it may begin with healthcare, physiotherapy or additional support to become active.
The important thing is that you don’t have to stay in one place.
As your needs change, the aim is to create stronger connections between the different opportunities available to you.
That’s what we mean by One Hillbrow.
Health and activity working together
Hillbrow is a healthy living, activity focused centre linking resources between NHS Primary Healthcare Services and Community Leisure, ensuring GPs and Healthcare Teams can collaborate with leisure support staff to provide proactive and dynamic care under one roof, enabling the best possible health and wellbeing in the community.
The focus is on person-centred care, with an emphasis on positive outcomes for physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.
The goal is to change the way clinical and leisure professionals work together on a daily basis to improve the health of the local community.
More than reacting to ill health
Looking after your health isn’t only about what happens when something goes wrong.
Prevention and proactive health are important too.
Hillbrow is about helping you become active, stay well and take positive steps for your long-term health and wellbeing.
By connecting physical activity, wellbeing and healthcare, we want to make it easier for you to take action earlier and get the right support when you need it.
Our Purpose
To enable the best possible health for our community
Everything we do starts with this purpose.
Whether you’re looking to become more active, regain your health following illness or injury, manage a health condition or maintain a healthy lifestyle, our aim is to create opportunities that support you at every stage of your journey.
Our Vision of Success
To build a blueprint for integrated health – a cornerstone for the community’s health and wellbeing needs.
Our ambition is to develop a progressive and sustainable model of integrated health and wellbeing that responds to the needs of our community.
By working together with healthcare professionals, community organisations, partners and local people, we want to strengthen prevention, proactive health and wellbeing – and demonstrate what can happen when healthcare and physical activity work more closely together.
Built through partnership
Hillbrow Health and Wellbeing has been formed through a partnership between Wave Active ltd, and South Downs Health and Care GP Federation. Duncan Kerr and Nick Harvey are the Co-Founders.
Wave Active is a Charity and Social Enterprise managing leisure sites across the Lewes District and Eastbourne Borough and is passionate about providing services and opportunities that support individuals to gain, regain or maintain positive health, fitness and wellbeing.
South Downs Health and Care is a Social Enterprise owned by the GP practices of Eastbourne, Hailsham, Seaford, Lewes, High Weald and Bexhill. SDHC Vision is to enable every person to live their best life. SDHC is CQC registered and runs NHS community healthcare services.
Together, the partnership brings different expertise and resources closer together, creating the opportunity for a more connected approach to health and wellbeing.
Our Values
Purposeful
We are driven by our purpose to create sustainable results.
Personal
We meet people where they are at and empower them to achieve their goals.
Progressive
We are pioneering, agile, pragmatic, collaborative and committed to learn.
Your Hillbrow
You don’t have to be a particular type of person to belong at Hillbrow.
You might:
Wherever you start, our aim is to help you find the opportunities and support that are right for you.