Making sense of Social Prescribing

Making sense of Social Prescribing
University of Westminster 21 August 2017

• Two documents on the Social Prescribing Network  to help people commissioning, running and evaluating social prescribing schemes (see also https://www.socialprescribingnetwork.com/ )
• Making sense of Social Prescribing - coproduced by people with practical experiences of designing, commissioning, delivering, and evaluating social prescribing schemes in order to help commissioners to understand what a good social prescribing scheme looks like.
• Contents
• 1. Introduction
• 2. What is social prescribing? 
• 3. What do different models of social prescribing schemes look like? 
• 4. The essential ingredients of social prescribing schemes7
• 5. What makes a good link worker? 
• 6. What makes for a good referral?
• 7. Managing risk, safeguarding and governance.
• 8. Evaluation of social prescribing schemes - including an evaluation schecklist
• 9. A checklist of considerations for setting up a social prescribing scheme

See also
A review of the evidence assessing impact of social prescribing on healthcare demand and cost implications, University of Westminster June 2017