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Social prescribing enables health and social care professionals, community development workers and others to refer someone to a Social Prescribing Link Worker to talk about the issues they’re facing and what matters to them to find the right services to support and empower them.
Social prescribing enables health and social care professionals, community development workers and others to refer someone to a Social Prescribing Link Worker to talk about the issues they’re facing and what matters to them to find the right services to support and empower them.
Social prescribing is not a new concept. It’s been around for years, with many people describing it as the community development approach to health and wellbeing.
What’s special about it is the Link Workers who work support people with a wide range of social, emotional or practical needs.
Link Workers help address people’s needs across a number of areas such as physical activity, diet and nutrition, housing, mental health and social support. It is often referred to as a ‘more than medicine’ approach to health and wellbeing, based on the fact that the majority of long-term conditions can be prevented by lifestyle change alone.
Social prescribing is a growing movement that connects people with a range of non clinical programmes, services and events in their local community – like walking groups, mental health counseling, debt management advice, employability skills, volunteering, family fitness, healthy cooking programmes, mindfulness sessions, and the ‘green prescription’ of gardening and food growing.
We configure our platform to suit your needs so let’s discuss your plans for empowering communities and explore if and how we can help.
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