Impact of COVID-19 on social prescribing across an Integrated Care System: A Researcher in Residence study.

ABSTRACT: Emerging evidence suggests that connecting people to non-medical activities in the community (social prescribing) may relieve pressure on services by promoting autonomy and resilience, thereby improving well-being and self-management of health. This way of working has a long history in the voluntary and community sector but has only recently been widely funded by the National Health Service (NHS) in England and implemented in Primary Care Networks (PCNs). The COVID-19 global pandemic coincided with this new service. There is wide variation in how social prescribing is implemented and scant evidence comparing different delivery models. As embedded researchers within an Integrated Care System in the Southwest of England, we examined the impact of COVID on the implementation of social prescri

SUBMITTER: Westlake D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9111657 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature