Our latest briefing by Dr Koen Bartels (Heseltine Institute visiting fellow and Associate Professor at the Department of Public Administration and Policy, University of Birmingham) focuses on social prescribing. Drawing on findings from research in the Wirral, the briefing highlights the benefits of developing asset-based ecosystems for social prescribing. Social prescribing is widely promoted as a way to address the wider determinants of health by referring people to community-based activities. The Wirral has a burgeoning social prescribing provision grounded in a well-established asset-based approach, but faces a range of structural issues. This briefing identifies routes to develop more asset-based systems of social prescribing, reinforcing ‘what’s strong’ and transforming ‘what’s wrong’.
Social prescribing: what’s strong and what’s wrong – lessons from the Wirral
DOI: 10.17638/03172458
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