This webinar is the second of a three-part series and will focus on the exciting developments within the Green Social Prescribing (GSP) Programme Extension Phase, running until March 2025. Building on the successes of the initial Test & Learn phase, the current phase aims to deepen understanding and enhance the delivery of green social prescribing initiatives.
In addition to how green social prescribing can best be embedded into mental health pathways in local health and care systems, the Extension Phase has the following three focus areas:
1) Value-for-Money:
Understanding value for money from the perspective of whether green social prescribing is an effective, efficient, economical and equitable way of supporting people with mental health needs, and what this means in practice for development, commissioning and delivery of green social prescribing.
2) Data Tracking through the Pathway:
Establishing processes to ensure that data is captured along the GSP pathway from referral through to delivery of activity; how this is included in wider social prescribing pathways and how integrating this with Integrated Care System data processes can support understanding of health service utilisation to inform evidence based commissioning.
3) Sustainable Funding Models:
Understanding the elements required for sustainable funding including shared investment funding models; appropriate procurement mechanisms for nature based VCSE sector organisations of varying sizes and the development of nature based provider collaboratives.
The webinar shares case studies from the test and learn sites outlining the barriers faced and innovative strategies developed when exploring these three key focus areas. It will also show the progress made to embed nature based social prescribing into the wider social prescribing offer within mental health pathways, and share examples of how test and learn sites have extended the green social prescribing offer across the life course and to those living with long term mental health conditions.
