Preventing and treating mental health through social prescribing With mental health problems considered one of the main causes of the overall disease burdens worldwide, mental wellbeing issues are widespread and remain a key priority across the healthcare system. Mental health problems represent the largest single cause of disability in the UK, with the cost to…
The power of partnerships in effective social prescribing programmes Recognising that our most pressing health and social care challenges are too complex for any one single institute to solve, councils, VCSE organisations, health bodies and housing associations across the country are increasingly appreciating the added value that greater partnership working brings to achieving public health…
Why Student Doctors are Becoming the New Champions of Social Prescribing TODAY’S BLOG IS WRITTEN BY LUCIA LAZZERESCHI, STUDENT DOCTOR, SOUTHAMPTON SOCIAL PRESCRIBING CHAMPION 2017-2018 AND SOUTH EAST SOCIAL PRESCRIBING REGIONAL LEAD. Embedding a holistic approach Well, approaching medicine holistically is something that my professors and seminar leads have been preaching since the first day…
Cornwall Council Enhance their Social Prescribing Programme with Elemental’s Digital Platform Following a successful Department of Health and Wellbeing bid, Cornwall Council and voluntary sector partners have partnered with Elemental in a digital social prescribing programme designed to enable health professionals in Cornwall to prescribe non-clinical activities to residents. EMBEDDING DIGITAL SOCIAL PRESCRIBING Link workers…
Social prescribing: a new way forward for local councils Back in April 2013, local authorities were set a renewed responsibility for public health as part of the health and social care reforms. In order to be more influential in improving community health and helping to deliver the ‘radical upgrade in prevention and public health’ called…
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