NECSU April 2021
- The aims of this evaluation were to:
- Understand the update and usage of social prescribing navigator services across Newcastle with regards population, conditions, and sites.
- Analyse trends in unplanned access to secondary care.
- Understand the experience and impact from the patient as end user of this service and navigators as deliverers of the service
- Recommend data collection and analysis for the ongoing service to have greater comprehension of the impact of the service.
- The report describes approaches to monitoring and evaluation of social prescribing.