Social Prescribing

How it works

Benefits

Background

Evidence quality

Highlighted claims

• Social prescribing connects people to community resources that address practical, social, and emotional needs affecting health and wellbeing. — Can social prescribing intervention reduce unplanned hospital usage in an ethnically diverse and deprived population: a quasi-experimental study using a dynamic staggered difference-in-differences approach
• The NHS has made social prescribing a major component of personalised care in England. — Can social prescribing intervention reduce unplanned hospital usage in an ethnically diverse and deprived population: a quasi-experimental study using a dynamic staggered difference-in-differences approach
• The study concludes that proactive, integrated social prescribing can reduce unplanned hospital use in deprived and ethnically diverse populations. — Can social prescribing intervention reduce unplanned hospital usage in an ethnically diverse and deprived population: a quasi-experimental study using a dynamic staggered difference-in-differences approach
• Prior reviews suggest social prescribing may improve health and reduce costs, but the evidence has often had methodological limitations. — Can social prescribing intervention reduce unplanned hospital usage in an ethnically diverse and deprived population: a quasi-experimental study using a dynamic staggered difference-in-differences approach