Social Prescribing

What is Social Prescribing?

Social prescribing recognises that health is heavily determined by social factors such as poverty, isolation and loneliness.
Social prescribing offers GPs and other health professionals a means of referring people to a range of non-clinical community supports which can have significant benefits for their overall health and wellbeing.
Social Prescribing has a number of key components:
  • A referral from any healthcare professional/other professional or self-referral into the service
  • an intervention between the service user and a social prescribing link worker. The intervention can take up to eight sessions
  • Supporting the service user to access local voluntary community and social enterprise organisations or services through discussion and joint decision
  • making measuring the impact of the social prescribing on the person, the wider community and the health service.

Who is social prescribing for?

Social prescribing is for adults over the aged of 18 years, including (but not exclusively) people:
  • Outreach support to residents of direct provision centres:
  • with one or more long-term conditions
  • who need support with their mental health
  • who are frequent GP/ED attendees and may benefit from other social supports outside of clinical services
  • who have complex social needs which affect their health and wellbeing.
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