Social prescribing fits a number of policy, practice, and system development in England well; from the move towards Personalised Care, to changes in commissioning arrangements. On top of this, significant investment was made in rolling out the link worker model of social prescribing and the last ...
In England, social prescribing is now a key part of the National Health Service Long-Term (NHS) Plan and Personalised Care Agenda [9], with hopes that it will reduce the reliance on NHS primary care services [10] as well as reduce clinician workload [5]. Its delivery is supported throug...
Social prescribing is gaining traction internationally. It is an approach which seeks to address non-medical and health-related social needs through taking a holistic person-centred and community-based approach. This involves connecting people with and s
Children's charity Barnardo's has suggested in its recently published report thatsocial prescribingcould be one effective way of addressing this demand. They've called on the government to introduce a national social prescribing strategy to offerchildrenand adolescents a community-based, non-clinical a...
Intervention effect outcomes were consistent with those used in past reviews of social prescribing for the general population (Bickerdike et al., 2017; Public Health England 2019). These included any provider- or self-reported measures of the impact of social prescribing on: Additional intervention ...
One approach to accessing social prescribing in UEC could be to incorporate social prescribing into other systems that are being designed to facilitate integrated care between UEC services. In England, a single point of access (SPoA) system, where practitioners from multiple services can access patien...
The disproportionate incidence of sexual misconduct in Higher Education (HE) is a troubling yet well-documented reality. Despite this, a sector-level measure of prevalence remains underdeveloped, something the OfS is working hard to address. Learn more Green Social Prescribing: what do patients, ...
Natural England, NHS England and NASP are partners in the cross-Government 'Preventing and tackling mental ill health through green social prescribing' project, which defines Green Social Prescribing as the practice of a social prescribing link worker connecting and supporting people to engage in natur...
being disrupted. If their involvement or engagement with the patient is diminished, it affects the success of the whole. There is more work to be done in finding evidence for the success of social prescribing, especially as many more GPs in England are starting to utilise it within their ...
1. The Government must work with NHS England to better promote the benefits of social prescribing with GPs, nurses and other health and care professionals, and how they can refer people to non-clinical complementary therapy services. 2. The Personal Care sector team in the Department for Busines...