Evidence Accessibility of social prescribing schemes in England to people from Black, Asian and ethnically diverse population groups

March 2022

The National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP) commissioned its Academic Partners to review and summarise the evidence on the accessibility of social prescribing schemes in England to people from Black, Asian and ethnically diverse population groups.

• People from Black, Asian and ethnically diverse population groups are under-represented in social prescribing. Furthermore, there is currently very limited evidence available to help us understand why this is the case
• Given the very extremely limited evidence based, we need a far more complete picture of both awareness and use of social prescribing services by people from ethnically diverse population groups