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. With the excitement of celebrating the world’s first International Social Prescribing Day on the 14th of March behind us, medical students all around…
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…
United Welsh boost the Wellbeing 4U service through Elemental partnership Wellbeing 4U is delivered in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales by Thrive, the team that manages specialist accommodation and support services for housing association United Welsh on behalf of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. As well as offering one-to-one support…
Patient Activation Measure® coming soon to Elemental’s social prescribing platform thanks to a groundbreaking partnership with Insignia Health In a bid to continually empower communities towards self-care, we’re delighted to announce that the Patient Activation Measure® (PAM®) will soon be accessible via our social prescribing platform. Patient activation is defined as “an individual’s knowledge, skill,…
Social prescribing: Making health prevention a priority Last year, the Prime Minister announced the NHS Long Term plan, which would aim to deliver better patient outcomes over the next ten years. At the heart of the NHS Long Term plan, health prevention features heavily, stating that the NHS can take important action to ‘complement’ but…
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