Social prescribing is listed as one of the ten high impact actions in the NHS England General Practice Forward View, it is has been identified that approximately 20% of patients will see their GP for what is considered a social problem. It is suggested that the implementation of a Social Prescribing scheme can allow individuals to access non-clinical support in a personalised and flexible manner to promote self-management as well as encouraging collaborative working across the local community, health care setting and the third sector.
Professor Veronica Wilkie talks about the impact of social prescribing
Social prescribing is listed as one of the ten high impact actions in the NHS England General Practice Forward View, it is has been identified that approximately 20% of patients will see their GP for what is considered a social problem. It is suggested that the implementation of a Social Prescribing scheme can allow individuals to access non-clinical support in a personalised and flexible manner to promote self-management as well as encouraging collaborative working across the local community, health care setting and the third sector.
Objectives:
- To assess the patient’s needs, work with them to identify appropriate forms of support, and record their outcomes.
- To help patients to overcome personal barriers and difficulties such as poor mobility, mental health, isolation, lack of access to transport, or low confidence.
- To encourage and strengthen links between the local community, GP Practices and statutory service provision available in the locality.
- To work with service providers to maximize the community resources available to patients in the local community.
- To build links with existing volunteering/good neighbour schemes/ and community capacity building schemes in the local area in association with Community Brokers, WISH and other developments.
- To reduce demand on GP Services and A&E admissions. (Particularly those patients considered to be ‘frequent attenders’)
A word from our Social Prescriber in North and West PCN
What is Social Prescribing?
Social prescribing aims to help you to have more control over your own health and find ways to improve how you feel in a way that suits you.
As a Social Prescriber at the Surgery, I work with people referred to me directly from practice staff. This is an optional service offered by the practice for free, to support people as a whole. Many things can affect health and wellbeing and whilst the practice staff support patients’ medical needs, my role is to support that care by talking and listening to patients to help them identify what other social support they feel may help them.
This support may be a conversation, which prompts a patient’s awareness of the support they can access themselves, or I may introduce a patient to a community group, a new activity or a local club. Other support may be to help find healthy lifestyle advice or support for carers. It might just be to help find information and guidance: a bit of inside knowledge on your situation or what local resources there are.
We know that many things affect our health and wellbeing. GPs often notice some people visit them feeling isolated or lonely. Or they might be stressed out by work, money and housing problems. Sometimes it’s the stress of managing different long-term conditions. If you would like to have a conversation with me, please ask a member of the practice staff to refer you to the Social Prescribing service and I will be in contact, and together we can help you have more control over your health and wellbeing.
Social Prescribing Useful Links
HEE and NHS Partnership Programme
This e-learning resource has been developed for social prescribing link workers and includes the core elements and skills required to do the job and deliver social prescribing as part of a PCN multi-disciplinary team.
- https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/social-prescribing/
e-LfH Online Learning Platform Online
Social Prescribing - Learning for Link Workers (SPL). This e-learning resource has been developed for link workers and includes the core elements and skills required to do the job and deliver social prescribing as part of a PCN multi-disciplinary team.
- http://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/595166
Personalised Care Institute PCI Training
The PCI eLearning modules are free of charge however, fees apply for the accredited training for which you will need to contact the training providers directly for price and availability.
Please see the following links for PCI training:
eLearning modules and Link to PCI accredited training courses: www.personalisedcareinstitute.org.uk/resources-2/
Info@personalisedcareinstitute.org.uk
www.personalisedcareinstitute.org.uk
NHS Futures collaboration platform
Social prescribing NHS Futures collaboration platform is an online network for sharing resources and for discussion. Membership is open to link workers, PCNs and colleagues involved in social prescribing. To join email england.socialprescribing@nhs.net
Link to Site - https://future.nhs.uk/socialprescribing/grouphome
Click here to download the New Competency Document
Helpful Documents & Resources
NHS Englands Website Link for Social prescribing - www.england.nhs.uk/personalisedcare/social-prescribing/
Personalised Care Roles Training Requirements
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Care Co-ordinator |
Six components of the universal model for personalised
Access statuary and mandatory training
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Your learning options (personalisedcareinstitute.org.uk) · Core Skills · Shared Decision Making · Personalised Care and Support Planning (PCSP) · Personalised Care and Support Planning (PCSP) – Maternity |
PCI Accredited Course |
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Health and Well- being Coach Health and Wellbeing Coach | Health Education England (hee.nhs.uk) |
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All PCI Accredited Health coaching training | Peak Health Coaching Ltd (4 day Course) Know Your Own Health | Supporting self-management (kyoh.org) (4 day course) HN Training ACADEMY | HN (hn-company.co.uk) (6 month work based learning) Health Coaching for Health & Social Care workforces (tpchealth.com) (4 day course) Wellbeing Coach Training for Organisations - Raw Horizons Academy (4 day course) |
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Social Prescriber Social Prescribing Link Worker | Health Education England (hee.nhs.uk) |
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Social Prescribing - elearning for healthcare (e-lfh.org.uk)
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New Community Health and wellbeing Apprenticeship |
Community Health and Wellbeing Workers work in partnership with individuals and their communities to identify and address health and wellbeing needs, as well as inequalities. Their work is informed by the wider social determinants of health, such as the social, cultural, political, economic, commercial and environmental factors that shape the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age.
Example job titles include (but are not limited to):
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Link to Occupational Standard Community health and wellbeing worker / Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education No providers identified to deliver yet |
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Upcoming programme of training and peer support for Social Prescribing Link Workers
Note that there dates below will be updated and we will keep you informed of upcoming sessions on here and through TeamNet (Agilo) Announcements.
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