Social prescribing practices and learning across the North West Coast region: essential elements and key challenges to implementing effective and sustainable social prescribing services.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Social prescribing has become an important feature of the UK primary care offer. However, there remains limited evidence on how best to implement and deliver social prescribing programmes to maximise effectiveness and long-term sustainability.

Aim

To explore social prescribing practices and experience of implementing social prescribing programmes across National Institute for Health and Social Care Research (NIHR) Collaborative Leadership for Applied Health and Care Research (CLAHRC) North West Coast (NWC) and NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) NWC region to identify key learning points that can be applied to other settings.

Method

We held a learning exchange workshop attended by practitioners and Public Advisors who had been involved in implementi

SUBMITTER: Hassan SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10231851 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature