‘Welzijn op Recept’ (Social Prescribing): A helping hand in re-establishing social contacts

‘Welzijn op Recept’ (Social Prescribing): A helping hand in re-establishing social contacts – an explorative qualitative study.
Primary Health Care Research & Development, December 2017, 1-9. doi:10.1017/S1463423617000809

• ‘Welzijn op Recept’ is a social prescribing intervention running in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands under which primary care providers refer patients with psychosocial problems to a community well-being organisation. 
• A qualitative impact study involving 10 participants indicates that they experienced an increase in their own strength, self-confidence, self-reliance and the number of social contacts, and stated that they are experiencing better health.