Routes to social prescribing outside National Health Service (NHS) structures: a systematic map.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Social prescribing, linking to community-based interventions to support individuals' health and well-being, has become established across social medicine in the UK. Currently, most of the evidence and knowledge about how social prescribing pathways' function focuses on primary care, and we know less about how social prescribing operates outside of these structures. This review explored the evidence concerning non-health service delivered social prescribing with a view to developing guidance that would support social prescribing pathways that function outside of the health service framework.

Design

This paper reports a systematic mapping review of evidence concerning how community-based social prescribing pathways were delivered, exploring what these looked like, w

SUBMITTER: Hazeldine E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11816873 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature