Social Prescribing Innovation Showcase

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• Innovation Network

  Warrington Voluntary Action

  This innovation in Warrington and Halton integrates link workers with hospital discharge teams, with access to health IT systems and data. The model ensures that the VCSE is fully involved in the discharge process, as a valued and trusted partner in the multi-disciplinary team arranging packages of support for patients going home. The Healthy & Home team take referrals for patients who are due to be discharged from hospital and are in specified target groups, including patients suffering from Long Covid, those in need of additional support at home or living in deprived wards.

  Sectors:

  Secondary Care

  Location(s):

  North West

  Area of work:

  Physical Health

• Innovation Network

  Walsall Together

  Walsall's collaborative approach has developed a shared view on social prescribing and a higher profile in the area. They brought together a partnership committed to high-quality social prescribing that responds to the needs of communities.

  Sectors:

  Primary Care

  Location(s):

  Midlands

• Innovation Network

  South Yorkshire Housing Association

  A coproduction approach in South Yorkshire brought together people with lived experience of multiple disadvantage to be trained and supported in developing, delivering and evaluating social prescribing services.

  Sectors:

  Advice, Finance and Housing

  Location(s):

  Yorkshire & The Humber

• Innovation Network

  Nature Buddying

  The Nature Buddies pilot developed by Natural England, was innovative in it's approach to directly respond to the barriers faced by individuals when accessing green social prescribing interventions. Using a co-design process, they structured a programme which can increase access to green social prescribing, and created a toolkit with stakeholders which supports implementation.

  Sectors:

  Natural Environment

  Area of work:

  Physical Health

  Mental Health

  Permalink:

  https://socialprescribingacademy.org.uk/what-is-social-prescribing/natural-environment-and-social-prescribing/nature-buddies/

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• Innovation Network

  Defence Gardens

  This innovation recognises that there is a need for specific social prescribing activity dedicated to particular life transitions, addressing the unique challenges veterans face. The scheme directly responded to the need for more bespoke activity that still approached wellbeing in a holistic, person-created way.

  Sectors:

  Physical Activity

  Natural Environment

  Area of work:

  Physical Health

  Mental Health

• Innovation Network

  LGBTQ+ Switchboard

  Switchboard Brighton & Hove has embedded a link worker which represents important developments in the way link workers can be trained to work with specific communities, and base themselves where those communities can easily access them, particularly for individuals who may have had negative experiences with primary care services.

  Sectors:

  Primary Care

  Location(s):

  South East

  Area of work:

  Social Prescribing Workforce

  Mental Health

  Permalink:

  https://socialprescribingacademy.org.uk/resources/supporting-the-lgbtqplus-community-through-social-prescribing/

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