Supporting social prescribing in primary care by linking people to local assets: a realist review

S Tierney, G Wong, N Roberts, AM Boylan, S Park… - BMC medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background Social prescribing is a way of addressing the 'non-medical'needs (eg
loneliness, debt, housing problems) that can affect people's health and well-being …

Social prescribing: less rhetoric and more reality. A systematic review of the evidence

L Bickerdike, A Booth, PM Wilson, K Farley, K Wright - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Social prescribing is a way of linking patients in primary care with sources of
support within the community to help improve their health and well-being. Social prescribing …

The impact of social prescribing services on service users: a systematic review of the evidence

JV Pescheny, G Randhawa… - European journal of public …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Social prescribing initiatives are widely implemented in the UK National Health
Service to integrate health and social care. Social prescribing is a service in primary care …

Service-users' perspectives of link worker social prescribing: a qualitative follow-up study

JM Wildman, S Moffatt, M Steer, K Laing, L Penn… - BMC public health, 2019 - Springer
Background Social prescribing enables health-care professionals to address non-medical
causes of ill-health by harnessing the resources of the voluntary and community sectors in …

Social prescribing—an effort to apply a common knowledge: impelling forces and challenges

MM Islam - Frontiers in Public Health, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In recent times, social prescribing has been introduced in some countries, and substantially
in the UK The objective of this scheme is to offer non-medical care mainly to primary care …

[HTML][HTML] Patient uptake and adherence to social prescribing: a qualitative study

J Pescheny, G Randhawa, Y Pappas - BJGP open, 2018 - bjgpopen.org
Background Social prescription is an initiative that aims to link patients in primary care with
sources of support within the community and voluntary sector to improve their health …

The impact of a social prescribing service on patients in primary care: a mixed methods evaluation

D Carnes, R Sohanpal, C Frostick, S Hull… - BMC health services …, 2017 - Springer
Background Social prescribing is targeted at isolated and lonely patients. Practitioners and
patients jointly develop bespoke well-being plans to promote social integration and or social …

The social cure of social prescribing: a mixed-methods study on the benefits of social connectedness on quality and effectiveness of care provision

B Kellezi, JRH Wakefield, C Stevenson, N McNamara… - BMJ open, 2019 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives This study aimed to assess the degree to which the 'social cure'model of
psychosocial health captures the understandings and experiences of healthcare staff and …

Delivering a primary care-based social prescribing initiative: a qualitative study of the benefits and challenges

K Skivington, M Smith, NR Chng, M Mackenzie… - British Journal of …, 2018 - bjgp.org
Background Social prescribing is a collaborative approach to improve inter-sectoral working
between primary health care and community organisations. The Links Worker Programme …

What approaches to social prescribing work, for whom, and in what circumstances? A realist review

K Husk, K Blockley, R Lovell, A Bethel… - Health & social care …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The use of non‐medical referral, community referral or social prescribing interventions has
been proposed as a cost‐effective alternative to help those with long‐term conditions …