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Social Prescribing Innovation Showcase

A growing directory highlighting organisations, projects, and ideas making a difference to social prescribing, across the UK. 

Projects with the Innovation Network badge come from members of our Social Prescribing Innovation Network!

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  • Brighton Libraries

    An example of non-healthcare settings playing a crucial role in advancing social prescribing at a hyper-local level, through hosting link workers in community settings. Innovative in its approach to progressing a whole community approach to social prescribing, this example shows how libraries can be a valuable asset to community health needs.
    Sectors:
    Arts and Culture
    Heritage
    Location(s):
    South East

  • Care Navigation Models

    An example of innovative thinking to support PCNs in their social prescribing referrals, recognising the challenge that individuals face when needing to access a GP appointment before receiving a link worker referral. This example highlights how developing simple resources with stakeholders across the system, can have a huge impact.
    Sectors:
    Primary Care

  • Change Minds

    Change Minds is a unique heritage, creative, wellbeing project engaging those living with mental health problems. Participants use historical archives to research and develop creative responses to the lives of asylum patients in the past, developing a deeper understanding of their own experience along the way
    Sectors:
    Heritage
    Area of work:
    Mental Health

  • Cheshire Youth Justice

    Cheshire Youth Justice Service have developed an innovative approach to meet their needs of their youth justice service users through embedding social prescribing to tackle reoffending and meet unmet health needs of the young people they work with. The approach has improved engagement and participation while also supporting children’s compliance with their court orders.
    Sectors:
    Faith and Community
    Location(s):
    North West
    Area of work:
    Children and Young People

  • Church Works are supporting churches across England to develop innovative projects that support their communities health and wellbeing, and are developing resources to support churches in building strong relationships with their local social prescribing team. In 2023, they gathered hundreds of church leaders along with experts in mental health to equip the church to respond to the mental health needs of communities.
    Sectors:
    Faith and Community
    Area of work:
    Mental Health

  • Connected Care Programme

    The health of people in Slough is varied, with a life expectancy 4 years lower than the England average. Using a population health management tool, over 3,000 residents were identified in the most deprived areas and living with chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension and surveyed to produce a powerful dataset that informed a social commissioning offer through richer, deeper insights into patient reported needs.
    Sectors:
    Primary Care
    Location(s):
    London
    Area of work:
    Long Term Conditions
    Social Prescribing Workforce

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