Impact of a link worker social prescribing intervention on non-elective admitted patient care costs: A quasi-experimental study

Wildman, John; Wildman, Josephine M

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115598

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“…The findings are congruent with a survey completed by 120 pharmacists, showing poor understanding of social prescribing, and the need for increased staff training and funding [ 29 ]. Existing literature has suggested pharmacists could adopt multiple roles to implement social prescribing–as screeners, identifiers, link workers or providers of social interventions [ 28 , 39 ] to reduce the demand on existing health services [ 8 ]. However, with such a limited understanding shown in this research, the role pharmacists could adopt to implement social prescribing at present may be limited.…”

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“…It is argued that social prescribing can be useful for people living with long-term health conditions, mental health problems, socioeconomic struggles and social isolation–the latter of which has become more prevalent following the COVID-19 pandemic [ 7 ]. There is some evidence suggesting engagement in social prescribing may reduce demand for non-elective healthcare [ 8 ] and GP attendances [ 9 ]. Hence, it may be a means of addressing demand on overstretched healthcare services, supporting the broader well-being of vulnerable, socioeconomically disadvantaged communities.…”

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"You don’t get side effects from social prescribing”—A qualitative study exploring community pharmacists’ attitudes to social prescribing

Rathbone,

Pearson,

Akinyemi

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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Objectives Social prescribing is an approach that enables the referral of patients to non-clinical support and places a focus on holistic care. This study explored views of community pharmacists regarding social prescribing in pharmacies. Study design A qualitative phenomenological approach was used. Methods A convenience sample of eleven community pharmacists from Northern England were recruited via social media (Twitter, Facebook) and took part in a semi-structured, one-to-one qualitative interviews that asked about their knowledge of social prescribing, the advantages of community pharmacist involvement and any barriers they predicted to its implementation. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and thematically analysed. Results The sample included largely male pharmacists (63.3%) with less than five years’ experience (45.5%) and included pharmacists working as employees (63.6%), locums (27.3%) and owners (9%) in both chain (36%) and independent stores (54.5%). The main findings indicate an enthusiasm for but limited understanding of social prescribing. Factors which appeared to influence involvement were training requirements and time available to complete an additional service in busy pharmacies. Opportunities centred on the broader pharmacy team’s role to optimise health outcomes. Conclusions The findings indicate pharmacists may be an underused resource due to a poor understanding of the full scale and scope of social prescribing beyond health promotion, lifestyle interventions. Further work is needed to explore the transferability of the findings to the broader pharmacy workforce to understand how social prescribing can be positioned within pharmacy practice.

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"You don’t get side effects from social prescribing”—A qualitative study exploring community pharmacists’ attitudes to social prescribing

Rathbone,

Pearson,

Akinyemi

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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“…, 2022 , link worker social prescribing intervention (Griffiths et al. , 2023 ; Wildman & Wildman, 2023 ), therapeutic community gardening (Wood et al. , 2022 ), green exercise initiatives (Massey et al.…”

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Speaking the same language – a scoping review to identify the terminology associated with social prescribing

Newstead,

Elliott,

Cavanagh

et al. 2023

Prim Health Care Res Dev

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Aim: To identify the social prescribing-related terminology within the peer-reviewed literature of the UK and the grey literature from Wales. Background: Social prescribing has seen a period of development that has been accompanied by a proliferation of related terminology and a lack of standardisation in the manner in which it is employed. This creates barriers to engagement and impairs communication, both between professionals and members of the public. The Wales School for Social Prescribing Research and Public Health Wales committed to the development of a glossary of terms for social prescribing, to facilitate the clarification and standardisation of the associated terminology. Here, we describe the first step in that process. Method: A scoping review of the peer-reviewed UK literature and Welsh grey literature was conducted. The titles and abstracts of 46,242 documents and the full text of 738 documents were screened. Data were charted from 205 documents. Data capture included terminology, the location within the UK of the research or intervention described in the article, and the perspective from which the article was authored. A general inductive approach was used to categorise the terms by theme. Findings: This research serves to highlight the breadth and diversity of the terminology associated with social prescribing. Results demonstrate aspects of shared commonality and clear distinction between the terminology from the two literature sources. The greatest contributions of terms were from articles that examined research and/or interventions in England and that were authored from the perspective of health or health and social care. The research indicates that nation- and sector-specific terms may not be adequately represented in the literature at large. Looking forward, it will be important to ensure that social prescribing terminology within the UK literature is culturally relevant and accurately reflects the terminology used by the workforce who encounter and deliver social prescribing.

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Implementing Social Prescribing Schemes: Learning from Practice

Polley

2024

Social Prescribing Policy, Research and Practice

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Impact of a link worker social prescribing intervention on non-elective admitted patient care costs: A quasi-experimental study

Cited by 6 publications

References 34 publications

"You don’t get side effects from social prescribing”—A qualitative study exploring community pharmacists’ attitudes to social prescribing

"You don’t get side effects from social prescribing”—A qualitative study exploring community pharmacists’ attitudes to social prescribing

Speaking the same language – a scoping review to identify the terminology associated with social prescribing

Implementing Social Prescribing Schemes: Learning from Practice

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