What Elemental Software does

Elemental Software, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Derry, United Kingdom, builds Access Elemental, a cloud-based social prescribing platform that enables GPs, Primary Care Networks, Integrated Care Systems, Mental Health Trusts, local authorities, and voluntary and community sector organisations to refer patients to Social Prescribing Link Workers, Care Coordinators, and Health Coaches and to manage those referrals end-to-end. The platform provides case management, appointment and prescription recording, audit trails, and outcome measurement, and is distinguished by native integrations with primary care clinical systems (EMIS, SystmOne), secondary care, and social care systems. Functionally, it replaces fragmented spreadsheets and email-based referral workflows with a unified referral, case-management, and reporting layer used across more than 1,000 social prescribing hubs in the UK and Ireland.

The company monetises through quote-based annual SaaS subscriptions sold via The Access Group's enterprise direct sales motion, with discovery calls, demos, and case-study driven community adoption in the voluntary and charity sector as the primary conversion mechanism. Elemental generates no publicly disclosed revenue and operates as a subsidiary of The Access Group within its Health and Support Suite, leveraging Access's NHS and local authority customer base for cross-sell. Earlier-stage capital came from two seed rounds led by Clearly Social Angels in 2017 and 2018, prior to the Access Group acquisition. The product roadmap extends beyond core social prescribing into outcome analytics, community activity tracking, and adjacent verticals including housing, higher education, and mental health.

Operationally, Elemental runs with 11-50 employees, has no public AI/ML capabilities disclosed, and competes primarily on integration depth with NHS clinical systems and on incumbency across UK social prescribing hubs. Its strategic position is shaped by NHS Long Term Plan policy support for social prescribing as a mechanism for addressing wider determinants of health, making Elemental a workflow backbone rather than a discretionary IT purchase for its target segments.

Name

Elemental Software

Legal name

Elemental Software

Website

https://elementalsoftware.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Elemental Software builds Access Elemental, a cloud-based social prescribing platform that enables GPs, PCNs, ICSs, local authorities, and VCSEs across the UK and Ireland to refer, manage, and report on social prescribing, care coordination, and health coaching referrals through a single case-management system.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Prescribing Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (51321)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Behavioral Health-Integrated Chronic Care (SUD comorbidity, collaborative care) (HLALAFAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

EHR Extensions, APIs, App Marketplaces & SMART-on-FHIR Apps (HLACAAAN)

Keywords

• Social prescribing software
• Healthcare case management
• Patient referral platform
• Community health software
• Primary care integration

Headquarters

HQ city

Derry

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Software Subscription: Cloud-based SaaS subscription model for social prescribing software, likely sold on a per-organization or per-seat basis to healthcare providers, local authorities, and VCSE organizations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Elemental Software sells Access Elemental, a cloud-based social prescribing platform that allows GPs, link workers, care coordinators, and health coaches to make, manage, and report on referrals of patients to community health, social care, and wellness services. The platform delivers case management functionality, integrates with primary care (EMIS, SystmOne), secondary care, and social care systems, and provides outcome measurement and audit trail reporting. It is sold as an enterprise SaaS subscription to healthcare providers, local authorities, and voluntary/community organizations primarily across the UK and Ireland.

Product overview

Elemental Software offers a single unified product: Access Elemental Social Prescribing Software, a cloud-based social prescribing case management platform. The platform enables healthcare professionals to refer patients to social prescribing services and allows Social Prescribing Link Workers, Care Coordinators, and Health Coaches to manage referrals and connect people to community services. It integrates with primary care systems, secondary care systems, and social care systems, and provides case management, reporting, and audit trail capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Access Elemental Social Prescribing Software A cloud-based social prescribing platform for GPs and frontline healthcare professionals that enables referral of patients and citizens to Social Prescribing Link Workers, Care Coordinators, and Health Coaches. Allows users to make, manage, and report on referrals to social prescribing, care coordination, and health coaching services. Fully integrates with primary care systems (EMIS, SystmOne), secondary care systems, and social care systems, and provides case management, outcome measurement, and audit trail reporting. Sold as an enterprise SaaS subscription to NHS organizations, local authorities, and voluntary/community sector providers across the UK and Ireland.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduces clinical time spent on resolving patient's social needs
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Unite Us: Unite Us operates a US social care coordination and referral platform connecting healthcare providers with community-based services. It is a direct analogue to Elemental's social prescribing workflow and outcome-reporting proposition, serving a similar need in a different geography.
• findhelp (formerly Aunt Bertha): findhelp is a US social services search-and-referral network used by healthcare and community organizations to connect people to non-clinical support, mirroring Elemental's link-worker referral and case management role with broadly equivalent functionality.
• Healthify: Healthify provides a social determinants of health platform for screening, referral, and community resource mapping, directly comparable to Elemental's social prescribing platform functionality and customer base of health plans, providers, and community organizations.

Broad incumbents

• EMIS Health: EMIS is the dominant UK primary care EHR system with which Elemental integrates. As a broad incumbent it supplies GP clinical systems to a large share of UK practices and could, in principle, bundle competing social prescribing referral tooling into its EMR ecosystem, making it a relevant incumbent comparable for Elemental's positioning.
• TPP (The Phoenix Partnership): TPP provides the SystmOne primary care platform, a major UK EMR that Elemental integrates with for social prescribing referrals. As a broad incumbent it represents both a key integration partner and a potential competitive threat via its own care-coordination features.
• WellSky: WellSky provides care coordination and community health software across the US and UK, spanning health and social care workflows that overlap with Elemental's social prescribing and case management capabilities. Its broader portfolio positions it as a larger incumbent in adjacent categories.
• Access Health, Support and Social Care (within The Access Group): Elemental sits inside The Access Group's Health, Support and Social Care suite alongside case management, rostering, and electronic patient record modules. The broader suite is a relevant incumbent peer because cross-sell and adjacent functionality decisions directly shape Elemental's roadmap and competitive position.

Others

• Servelec (part of Access): Servelec provides social care and education case management software to UK local authorities and is now part of the wider Access family. It is adjacent rather than directly competitive, addressing upstream social care workflows that complement Elemental's healthcare-led social prescribing use cases.

Regional players

• System C Healthcare: System C supplies clinical and social care software to UK NHS trusts and local authorities, with population health and care coordination modules that overlap with parts of Elemental's offering. It is a regional UK incumbent comparable in scale and target buyer rather than a direct niche competitor.

Emerging players

• Doccla: Doccla is a UK-based virtual ward and remote patient monitoring platform serving NHS organizations. While focused on clinical remote monitoring rather than social prescribing, it competes for the same NHS digital health budgets and link-worker/integrated care budgets that fund Elemental.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/its_elemental
• Facebookfacebook.com/elementalsoftware

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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