Social prescribing connects people to non-medical support to address these issues and other unmet needs.

Many things that affect our health can’t be treated by doctors or medicine alone like loneliness, debt, or stress due to financial pressures or poor housing. 

This could involve a Social Prescribing Link Worker

Helping someone who is isolated join a befriending group, an art class or a community gardening project, based on what works for them.

Connecting someone struggling with financial stress to a service that helps with managing debt or claiming benefits.

Social prescribing can help change the circumstances that can make people unwell. It can empower people to manage existing health problems, to get the right benefits or get back into employment. It can help people to connect and to grow in confidence.

Ask our Reception staff more about social prescribing, or ask to be referred to the social prescribing team.