National Evaluation of the Preventing and Tackling Mental Ill Health through Green Social Prescribing Project

The final outputs of the Green Social Prescribing Test and Learn Pilot National Evaluation have been published.

Working with researchers at The University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and the University of Plymouth we at ECEHH have undertaken an evaluation of the Preventing and Tackling Mental Ill Health through Green Social Prescribing Project (GSP Project), a two year £5.77 million cross-governmental initiative that ran across seven test and learn pilot sites in England (for details see below). The aim of the pilots was to develop the integrated systems and processes relating to the use of nature-based settings and activities to promote wellbeing and improve mental health. The project tested how to embed Green Social Prescribing to:

• Improve mental health outcomes.
• Reduce health inequalities.
• Reduce demand on the health and social care
• system.
• Develop best practice in making green social activities more resilient and accessible.

You can read the results in the different outputs we produced.

• Final Report : GSP Evaluation Final Report – Main Report Jan 2024 (5713k) 
• Final Report – Annex : GSP Evaluation Final Report – Appendices Jan 2024 (4383k) 
• Other : GSP Evaluation Final Report – Policy Briefing Jan 2024 (1087k) 
• Summary Report : GSP Evaluation Final Report – Summary Jan 2024 (1149k)