BMJ Opinion 18 July 2017
- A blog by Kerryn Husk (NIHR CLAHRC South West Peninsula (PenCLAHRC)) discusses the current drive for social prescribing but issues caution because the evidence base for currently lags considerably behind practice. He notes that a number of recent papers examining social prescribing from a number of angles have tended to highlight evidence gaps rather than demonstrating effect. Almost all studies of social prescribing conclude by making persuasive arguments for the need to examine and better understand the process of social prescribing, yet so far we haven’t acquired this knowledge.
