HaleGroups for public health authorities
Public health authorities must tackle health problems for many vulnerable people who cannot afford a subscription. A social-prescribing infrastructure costs £35–45k per link worker and chronically lacks things for social prescribers or GPs to refer to. Group programmes costing under £200 per vulnerable person per year, measured, with published outcomes, are highly cost-effective and can reduce the costs of unnecessary GP appointments and attendances at emergency departments. HaleGroups combine a whole-health check-in with small peer group conversations so support reaches everyone, not just the few who ask. Turn wellbeing from a benefit that sits unused into a habit your teams keep.
HaleGroups for businesses
The estimated annual cost of poor mental health to UK employers
Deloitte, Mental health and employers (2024)
working days lost to work-related stress, depression or anxiety
HSE, Great Britain statistics (2022/23)
workers experiencing a common mental health problem at any one time
Mind / NHS Digital
typical take-up of a traditional Employee Assistance Programme
Industry EAP utilisation benchmarks
EAPs, apps and helplines sit unused until a crisis. They wait for people to reach out and most never do, so spend rarely reaches the people who need it.
Stress at work is rarely just about work. Sleep, money, relationships, purpose and physical health all feed into it - but most tools look at a single slice.
One-to-one tools miss the strongest lever there is: other people. Isolation makes everything harder, and a login screen does nothing to change that.
Every member assesses the domains of whole health - not just mood - so support starts from the full picture and progress is measurable over time.
Small peer groups meet to work through those domains together. The conversation is the intervention: accountability, belonging and momentum that an app alone can’t create.
Built by a team led by Professor Anthony Costello and grounded in published science on group-based behaviour change - the same approach shown to work at population scale.
You see anonymised, aggregate trends in your organisation’s whole health, while each person’s own data stays private to them.
Tell us a little about your organisation and what you’re trying to solve. We’ll follow up to talk through how HaleGroups could work for your people - including pilots.