What is social prescribing?

What is social prescribing?

Social prescribing can be understood as  one of a family of approaches, sometimes  called community-centred approaches, to health and wellbeing. Community-centred approaches seek to mobilise community resources to improve people’s health and wellbeing and promote equity. Social prescribing generally refers to health and care professionals connecting people to a range of non-clinical support (such as arts, sport and exercise, nature groups, employment and housing support), usually through a social prescribing link worker.

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