- Non-medical interventions to improve patient's health behaviors and improve wellbeing.
- Potential results will be decreased dependence on healthcare workers and demand for secondary services.
- A social prescriber is also known as a: link worker, community connector, community navigator, and health trainer.
Interest rising in North America, Australia, and Scandinavia, to embed social prescribing in healthcare systems.
England social prescribing is part of the NHS Long Term Plan. Primary Care Networks will be funded to employ a social prescriber from 2019.
Drinkwater C, Wildman J, Moffatt S. Social prescribing. BMJ. 2019;364:l1285.PMID: 30923039. DOI: 10.1136/bmj.l1285.
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