Social Prescribing: a passing phase or a foundational pillar of the new Neighbourhood Health Service?

University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry Seminar Series

Social prescribing is a major new innovation already underway in over 40 countries around the world. A type of personalised care, social prescribing connects individuals with non-clinical supports and services including arts, heritage, exercise, volunteering, social groups, job training, and financial and housing support. In the UK alone, there have been an estimated 7 million referrals since the national roll-out in 2019. As the new National Centre for Social Prescribing Data and Analysis, UCL is working at the forefront of new developments in social prescribing in the UK. This presentation will present new approaches to data that enable us to capture the impact of social prescribing in novel ways, reveal the latest findings from large-scale clinical trials underway, and consider how social prescribing is evolving from a Link Worker service to a Social Finance Model and being reconceptualised as part of the new NHS 10 Year Plan.

This seminar is hosted in person in the Gelder Room, to join online, please use the Zoom details below:

https://zoom.us/j/94567124781?pwd=sVxXabbSWibdU8A9W2clQlG9neRGbQ.1

Meeting ID: 945 6712 4781
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