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Useful Social Prescribing Resources
In our quest to build, gather and share a strong body of evidence in Ireland (North and South) to support the development, promotion and impact of Social Prescribing, we are sharing some of the documents and resources that have helped guide our fellow social prescribing champions here and in other parts of the world. Click on the title to download!
A Natural Health Service
Improving lives and saving money
Wildlife Trusts’ makes the case for other organisations in the environment, creative
arts, sport, and physical activity sectors to be supported and increase the amount of ‘social prescribing’ on offer.
arts, sport, and physical activity sectors to be supported and increase the amount of ‘social prescribing’ on offer.
All Ireland Social Prescribing Conference
23-24 June 2022, City Hotel, Derry
This report summarises the events over two half days and lists actions that the All Ireland Social Prescribing Network (AISPN) will take forward.
Perspectives in Public Health
We care but we’re not carers: perceptions and experiences of social prescribing in a UK national community organisation
SOCIAL PRESCRIBING &
the Voluntary and Community Mental
Health Sector
Exploring the impact of and barriers to implementation of social prescribing in Ireland, particularly as it relates to the voluntary and community mental health sector and recovery focused mental health care.
HSE Social Prescribing Poster
Poster to help promote your Social Prescribing Service
Social Prescribing Flyer with Information for
Health Professionals
This Flyer explains what Social Prescribing is and that it is not a replacement for but rather a supplementary service to clinical or counselling services and social work services. Its purpose is to encourage Health Professionals to get to know their local Social Prescriber or Link Worker and highlight the health and wellbeing benefits social prescribing offers.
Social Prescribing:
Making it work for
GPs and patients
This guidance has been drafted to help GPs make the most of the non-clinical support schemes they refer patients to, and collaborate with social prescribing link workers who will, from 1 July 2019, join their extended primary care teams.
Social Prescribing
Around the World
A World Map of Global Developments in Social Prescribing Across Different Health System
This report developed a series of case studies from 24 countries with varying maturity in social prescribing implementation.
This report developed a series of case studies from 24 countries with varying maturity in social prescribing implementation.
HSE Social Prescribing
Framework -Mainstreaming social prescribing in partnership with community &
voluntary organisations
This framework has been developed to support the development of social prescribing within the HSE and sets out a common approach for its delivery across the organisation.
Building the Capacity for the Evaluation of Social Prescribing: An Evaluability Assessment
An evaluability assessment of Social Prescribing in Ireland commissioned by Health and Wellbeing, Health Service Executive, the National Office of Suicide Prevention and the Department of Health.
Making sense of Social Prescribing
This guide was commissioned by NHS England and incorporates research from a Wellcome Trust funded seed award: ‘Investigating the provision and conceptualisation of Social Prescribing approaches to health creation’.
Social Prescribing: Our Vision for London 2018-2028
This document was developed by the Greater London Authority, NHS England, Healthy London Partnership and the London Social Prescribing Network, in
collaboration with partners across the NHS, local authority and VCSE sectors to support the scale and spread of social prescribing across London.
collaboration with partners across the NHS, local authority and VCSE sectors to support the scale and spread of social prescribing across London.
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