Healthcare professionals are vital to the delivery of social prescribing. You are the first point of contact when a patient needs help.
As the charity that champions social prescribing, we want you to know we are here for you. We want to provide all the support and guidance we can. To make your job easier and to ease the pressures on the NHS so that you can get on with your job.
Become a Social Prescribing Champion
Medical professionals have been at the forefront of the social prescribing movement since its inception. Play your part by becoming a Social Prescribing Champion. The scheme is open to all health professionals or those who work in healthcare settings and can influence clinical practice.
Online learning
Our Social Prescribing Essentials online course is a introduction to social prescribing that you can take at your own pace. Our Children and Young People course introduces social prescribing for children and young people.
Webinars
Our bank of webinars focuses on many different aspects of social prescribing - from how to find funding to how to work with NHS partners to how to measure outcomes.
Is social prescribing effective?
There is now strong evidence that social prescribing is effective for patients and the health system. Read the latest evidence, including on value for money.
Working with partners across sectors
Social prescribing is a crucial way of connecting the health system to other sectors - including advice and information, creative health, nature, physical activity and faith-based groups and organisations. Click on the links below to find toolkits, resources and information.
We’re working hard to answer your questions, to build new resources, and develop new evidence that will help.
- If there’s anything you would like to ask the team at NASP
- If there’s something you’d like to see on this page that we haven’t covered
- If you have a question about social prescribing
- If you want to make meaningful connections…
