Global Social Prescribing Alliance 2021
- The Global Social Prescribing Playbook is aimed at people and organisations leading local, national, and international implementation of social prescribing. The Playbook aims to:
- Explain what social prescribing is and clarify the role of the link worker
- Help leaders to plan how they can work with community groups, voluntary organisations and civic society to increase the number of community activities available, including across physical activity, financial wellbeing, arts and culture and nature
- Outline the impact of social prescribing and the opportunity it brings to people, society, economy and healthcare system
- Outline the building blocks of social prescribing
- Provide helpful self-assessment checklists and tools to help leaders to work co-productively with communities
- Support leaders to get clinical engagement and develop clinical champions for social prescribing
- Outline helpful ways to set up impact monitoring for social prescribing
