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Our new paper in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine<\/a>\u00a0discusses social prescribing, the process of referring people to non-clinical community services; such as exercise classes and welfare advice, with the aim of improving mental, physical and social wellbeing.<\/p>\n

Social prescribing has been increasingly adopted across high-income countries including the UK, United States of America, Canada and Finland. The UK\u2019s Department of Health first introduced the term \u2018social prescribing\u2019 in 2006 to promote good health and independence, especially for people with long-term conditions. Over a decade later, in 2019, NHS England committed to funding social prescribing through link workers. Link workers receive referrals, mainly from general practitioners, and are attached to primary care networks with populations of 30\u201350,000 people.<\/p>\n

In the paper, we examine the impact of different social prescribing schemes in England, from a population health perspective, that focus on individuals, communities or a combination of both. We examine the opportunities to maximise social prescribing\u2019s impact on population health, in the era of COVID-19, by realigning social prescribing to a household model that reflects principles of universality, comprehensiveness and integration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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