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Social prescribing

We are new to "social prescribing" and wonder if anyone here has experience of help from their local "social prescriber". We are expecting a call from the GP this week to try another referral (a ...

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Social Prescribing

Social prescribing is a means of enabling GPs and other frontline healthcare professionals to refer people to ‘services’ in their community instead of offering only medicalised solutions to produce a ...

Profile picture of the author Discussion in Disability rights and campaigning - 31 Oct 2018

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Social Prescribing

I know we had a thread on here some time ago about them but was just wondering does anybody now get their services or does anybody know the full range of what they do? I was referred to them back in ...

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Can Social Prescribing Tackle Loneliness?

I’m Kate and I work as a consultant with organisations in the voluntary sector on a range of issues including ageing, health and care. In recent years I’ve done a lot of work on loneliness like ...

Profile picture of the author Discussion in Disability rights and campaigning - 21 Oct 2019

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Social Prescribing: What it is and how it might help

Social prescribing is our current theme for blogs on the community, but what is it? An article by Blurt answers this question: Social prescribing is person-centred. What this means, is that rather ...

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Social Prescribing - finding support for every part of your life

I had never heard of Social Prescribing before, I assumed it was something to do with medication and then I got a call from my GP surgery asking if I would like to find out more. I have a chronic ...

Profile picture of the author Discussion in Disability rights and campaigning - 30 Oct 2019

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PIP Entitlement Question

This is a bit complicated but I'll try to make it simpler. I currently get standard PIP for both elements and it is in review. I have a support worker (that I pay for out of my benefits) helping me ...

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Moving home

Hi All, we moved into this house June 2018, as we received a section 21 as the owners (private rent) wanted house back for a family member. It was a 4bed bungalow and suited me perfectly. There are 6 ...

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What is 'wellbeing'?

Has anybody heard of these people? Social Prescribing sounds a lot like them.

Profile picture of the author Discussion in Coffee lounge - 23 Oct 2019

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Anyone have experience with a Social prescriber please ?

Hi my relative has mental health issues. OCD & social/communication anxiety. GP has referred a social prescriber (SP) but we're unsure how this would help. We've looked online and found very little ...

Profile picture of the author Discussion in Mental health and wellbeing - 4 Dec 2021

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