What's strong and what's wrong with social prescribing: lessons from the Wirral

Bartles, Koen and Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place What's strong and what's wrong with social prescribing: lessons from the Wirral. [Report]

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Abstract

1. Social prescribing of people to community-based activities that strengthen their wellbeing creates an opportunity to address both health inequalities and collaborative relationships. 2. This opportunity will be missed without an asset-based ecosystem of social prescribing that: - reinforces ‘what’s strong’: local assets that enable communities to feel well. - transforms ‘what’s wrong’: unequal relationships between local authorities, NHS and voluntary, community, faith, and social enterprise organisations. 3. Key elements of an asset-based ecosystem include: - continuous building of relationships of mutual understanding, trust, and support; - safe spaces for incubating and sustaining grassroots innovations; - inclusive and equal decision-making forums; - joint inquiry and learning driven by community assets and needs. 4. These lessons are based on the case of the Wirral, which has a burgeoning social prescribing provision grounded in a well-established asset-based approach, but faces structural issues with collaborative relationships. 5. Creating asset-based ecosystems for social prescribing across the UK is a way to realise policy aims for a social model of wellbeing that enables more equal and sustainable health and social care.

Item Type:	Report
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	05 Apr 2024 14:20
Last Modified:	05 Apr 2024 14:30
DOI:	10.17638/03172458
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3172458