Social prescribingWellbeingThe health needs of international migrants living in the United Kingdom (UK) extend beyond mainstream healthcare to services that address the wider determinants of health and wellbeing. Social prescribing, which links individuals to these wider services, is a key component ...
HSPS (Health and Social Prescribing Services) is a well-being and support service, a social enterprise in the UK ensuring people who need support remain independent.
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is based on the broad definition of Social Prescribing as a systematic approach that ‘enables a range of stakeholders, often based in healthcare, to refer individuals to non-clinical interventions, such as social activities and social services, to empower individuals and improve their health and w...
Furthermore, social prescribing approaches (e.g. Husk et al., 2016) that can facilitate the acquisition of social support may help build feelings of identity resilience in gay men.Availability of Data and Materials The dataset can be accessed by contacting the corresponding author.References Alonzo...
Findings show a lack of awareness regarding Social Prescribing (SP) amongst UK medical students. New strategies are needed to ensure the doctors of tomorrow are equipped with the necessary tools to achieve the recent outcomes for graduates and implement plans for the NHS and general practice which...
social prescribing might improve health inequities and reduce reliance on healthcare services. In the UK, social prescribing link workers have become core parts of primary care teams. Despite growing literature on the implementation of social prescribing, to date there has been no synthesis that ...
despite this role being relatively well established in community services in the UK. This may reflect the unique situation of our link workers within secondary and tertiary care children’s services in contrast to most social prescribing schemes which involve link workers supporting adults within the ...
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
Social prescribing (SP) has aroused widespread interest across countries. SP is a way of linking patients in primary care with sources of support within the community by empowering patients to coproduce solutions to improve their health and well-being. While previous research has demonstrated that ...