- Summary Guide – gives a clear picture of what a good social prescribing scheme looks like. It also includes a Common Outcomes Framework to help measure the impact of social prescribing on people, the local system, and the voluntary and community sector.
- Reference Guide for PCNs – provides information on setting up social prescribing services including support for recruitment, induction and supervision. It also outlines what quality assurance measures are necessary, and how information can be gathered to help develop a consistent evidence base for social prescribing.
- Welcome and induction pack for link workers in primary care networks.
- Handout for practice staff to give to people who are referred to a social prescribing link worker.
- What is social prescribing – The Kings Fund, February 2017
- Social prescribing animation – Healthy London Partnership
- Making Sense of Social Prescribing – University of Westminster
- Social prescribing: a pathway to work? – The Work Foundation, Lancaster University, February 2017
- Spotlight on the Ten High Impact Actions – Royal College of GPs
- Social prescribing – a guide for local authorities
- A review of the evidence assessing impact of social prescribing on healthcare demand and cost implications – University of Westminster
- Creative Health – All Party Parliamentary Group report
- What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and wellbeing? A scoping review Nov 2019 – World Health Organisation, November 2019
- What are the health benefits of physical activity? – Public Health England, 2019
- Review of evidence on the outcomes of sports and physical activity – Sport England, 2017
- Making sense of social prescribing (2017) Polley, M. et al.
- A review of the evidence assessing impact of social prescribing to healthcare demand and cost implications (2017) Polley, M. et al.
- A guide to selecting patient reported outcome measures (PROM’s) for social prescribing (2019) Polley, M & Richards, R.
- Decision making tool for PROM’s in social prescribing (2019) Polley, M & Richards, R.
- What does social prescribing look like? Mapping meaningful outcomes (2020) Polley, M et al.
- Evaluation report of the social prescribing demonstrator site in Shropshire – Final Report (2019) Polley, M et al.
- Dance to Health: Evaluation of the Pilot Programme (2017) AESoP
- Good practice for social prescribing for mental health: the role of nature-based interventions (2017) Bragg, R & Leck, C.
- Social prescribing at a glance: North West England (2016) Health Education England
- Shine 2014 final report. Social Prescribing. Integrating GP and community assets for Health. Health Foundation (2015) Bertotti, M. et al.
- Steps towards implementing self-care: A resource for local commissioners (2017) Healthy London
- Gloucestershire clinical commissioning group’s social prescribing service: Evaluation report (2016) Kimberley, R. et al.
- Just what the doctor ordered: social prescribing – a guide for local authorities (2016) Local Government Association
- Inaugural National Social Prescribing conference report (2016) Social Prescribing Network
- Social Prescribing: A pathway to work? (2016) Steadman, K. et al.
- The Role of Advice Services in Health Outcomes: evidence review and mapping study (2015) The Low Commission
- Social prescribing: a review of community referral schemes (2015) Thomson, L. et al.
A regular series of webinars focuses on topics covering key approaches to effective social prescribing.
Presentations used on previous webinars are available on the social prescribing Future NHS collaboration platform. If you are not already a member email england.socialprescribing@nhs.net. Topics covered include:
- Co-producing personalised care and support plans
- Using the Patient Activation Measure (PAM)
- Assessing wellbeing – using the ONS4 Wellbeing tool
- Safeguarding
- Looking after yourself and effective use of supervision
- Supporting community groups to receive people
- Keeping people physically active
- Connecting people to nature
- Making every contact count
- Creative support – connecting people to the arts
- Connecting people to local sports clubs
The current series of webinars (spring 2020) is focussing on support for link workers who are responding to the coronavirus pandemic. More details are on the social prescribing Future NHS collaboration platform.