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2016Polley et al (2016) Report of the Annual Social Prescribing Network Conference. Project Report, Westminster University, London.In this report, we offer a definition of social prescribing and point to the core principles that underpin the process when it works well for stakeholders. Furthermore, we set out recommendations on the principles underpinning effective service provision and the steps needed to capture and measure the impact of social prescribing, both of which facilitate moving social prescribing from the local to the national agenda. It is the first time that this has ever been done.(PDF) REPORT OF THE ANNUAL SOCIAL PRESCRIBING NETWORK CONFERENCE (researchgate.net)Strategydefinitionoutcomes
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2016Kimberlee, R. Gloucestershire clinical commissioning group’s social prescribing service: Evaluation report. Project Report. 2016Gloucestershire clinical commissioning group’s social prescribing service: Evaluation report. Project Reporthttps://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/905835 Evaluation
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2017Making hybrid inclusive - key priorities for employers and Government, The Work Foundation, 2017.Social Prescribing - A Pathway to work? This report from the Work Foundation is an analysis of the current and potential role of social prescription in supporting work opportunities for those, who are either unable or do not have the confidence or motivation to work. https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/work-foundation/?wp-content/uploads/2017/02/412_Social_prescribing.pdf Evaluation
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2017Polley, M.J., Fleming, J., Anfilogoff, T. and Carpenter, A. 2017. Making Sense of Social Prescribing. London University of Westminster.Making Sense of Social Prescribing. This guide was co-produced last year, by those who have been there and done it.  If you are new to social prescribing then please do use this resource to do some of the legwork for you!https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/q1v77/making-sense-of-social-prescribing Workforce
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2017Wellbeing Enterprises Social Impact report 2016-2017Wellbeing Enterprises CIC is an award winning social enterprise recognised for its innovative community-centred approaches in health and wellbeing in the UK. Over the last decade they have supported more than 25,000 people to make demonstrable improvements in health and wellbeing levels.  Have a read to see how they are demonstrating their value within their community and to wider public spending.https://www.grovehouse.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/wellbeing/wellbeing-social-impact-report.pdf Community
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2017Dance to Health: Evaluation of the Pilot Programme, An evaluation of Dance to Health's Pilot Programme. Developed by Aesop, February 2017.Dance to Health is a national falls prevention programme for older people.  Developed through our friends at AESOP, this programme now has interesting  evaluation data to share from their pilot programme.https://issuu.com/aesopartsandsociety/docs/aesop_final_e Physical Activity
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2017Good practice in social prescribing for mental health: the role of nature-based interventions (NECR228) Natrual England 2017This report builds on the findings from earlier Natural England reports and explores the options for improving the commissioning of, and referral to, these services as well as scaling-up the provision of nature-based interventions.Click here to go to the report and find previous reports.http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/5134438692814848?category=6502695238107136 Green
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2017The Hidden Value of our Green Spaces, The Land Trust, 2017This report by the Land Trust uses a financial approach to highlight the social and economic benefits of green spaces.https://thelandtrust.org.uk/the-land-trust-charitable-aims/thebenefits/ Green
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2017General Outcomes from the International Research ConferenceAt the conference in June, we put several questions to our delegates to gather their views on several topics relating to social prescribing.  The majority of attendees at the conference identified as being from the voluntary, community and social enterprise sectors or as researchers.  The overwhelming majority also considered themselves as innovators and early adopters. Our first question was 'when it comes to social prescribing, what are your two main concerns for the future?'.  As you can clearly see from the word cloud generated, funding was at the forefront of everyone's minds.  As promised on the day we have now analysed all the responses and done some basic content analysis to create broad themes. https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d/files/47323656-7b59-41ff-bb40-64b80822a5b8/conference_summary.pdf International
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2017Polley, M et al. Evaluation of the Reading Well for Young People Scheme. 2017Published by Drs Polley and Kovandzic, this evaluation sort to explore the benefit of implementing a quality assured reading list for mental health in young people, into a secondary school and local community setting. The report is of interest to anyone working with young people, and commissioners of services for young people, especially around mental health.https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/download/dca7ff61099254ce1469cdcb76e92f65e6d62ab906fb0c73a5d8c8dcefe6096f/1435429/Reading%20Well%20for%20young%20people%20evaluation.pdf M, C, YP
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2017Polley M et al. a review of the evidence assessing impact of social prescribing to healthcare demand and cost implications 2017This piece of work was aimed to critically appraise the data that we could find on demand reduction or economic analysis to really determine where the social prescribing field is at.  We all know that there is simultaneous development, roll out, evaluation and research happening.  We also think there is tremendous pressure out there to save money.  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318826738_A_review_of_the_evidence_assessing_impact_of_social_prescribing_on_healthcare_demand_and_cost_implications Economics
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2018Social Prescribing in Secondary Care How to guide July 2018Reports about the Social Prescribing pilot in Homerton Hospital, London. The Proactive Care team at Healthy London Partnerships commissioned Family Action to deliver this social prescribing service between Dec 2017-June 2018. There is a far more extensive evidence base for social prescribing in the GP/primary care space and so we hope this focus on secondary care will be welcomed and of real interest to wider NHS organisations nationally, as well as the research community.  The ‘How to Guide’ aims to practical advice to commissioners looking to develop social prescribing in secondary care and what an effective model looks likehttps://gallery.mailchimp.com/a694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d/files/67ddd3b7-0b23-47bb-bf89-3345b1927ea4/Social_Prescribing_in_Secondary_Care_How_to_guide_Nov_18.pdf Evaluation
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2018Social Prescribing in Secondary Care Pilot Service Evaluation Report July 2018Reports about the Social Prescribing pilot in Homerton Hospital, London. The Proactive Care team at Healthy London Partnerships commissioned Family Action to deliver this social prescribing service between Dec 2017-June 2018. There is a far more extensive evidence base for social prescribing in the GP/primary care space and so we hope this focus on secondary care will be welcomed and of real interest to wider NHS organisations nationally, as well as the research community.  The ‘How to Guide’ aims to practical advice to commissioners looking to develop social prescribing in secondary care and what an effective model looks likehttps://gallery.mailchimp.com/a694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d/files/922e0500-a2db-428a-9493-9739fe2713c5/Social_Prescribing_in_Secondary_Care_Evaluation_Report_Nov_18_FINAL.pdf Evaluation
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2018Outcomes for advice on prescription service Shelter, 2018Shelter in Newcastle has recently shared their outcomes for Advice on Prescription service and Ways to Wellness programmes between October 2016 and March 2018.  https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d/files/d77152a8-14a3-4ca4-a102-c32c3aca5fac/aop_infographic_1v0.pdf Evaluation
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2018Evaluation of the East Merton Social Prescribing Pilot, Healthy DialogueA summative evaluation of the East Merton Social Prescribing programme's first year and a review of its pathway.  https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d/files/f9fd4849-022b-4920-b3dc-248fcda119ca/Social_Prescribing_Report_Final_20180702.pdf Evaluation
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2018Wellbeing 4U, Social Prescribing Impact Report 2016-18. Social Prescribing Impact Report by United Welsh in Cardiff and Vale LHB. This report is on the first 2 years of the service which has now been commissioned for a further 2 years. https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d/files/c15a01e2-d555-4173-9f07-0f6408880f6d/Social_Prescribing_Impact_Report_2018.pdf Evaluation
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2018VCSE sector engagement in social prescribing (Elemental, 2018).This report investigates how to support the VCSE sector to engage with and deliver social prescribing in London.https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d/files/d682833d-0015-49a7-a811-74212672d7de/social_prescribingvcsereport.pdf Community
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2018McKnight J et al. The Four Essential Elements of an Asset-Based Community Development Process, ABCD Institute, 2018The primary goal of an Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) process is to enhance collective citizen visioning and production through a process that combines four essential elements: 1. Resources   2. Methods  3. Functions  4. Evaluation. This paper discusses each of these elements in detail in an effort to answer the following question: “what is distinctive about an Asset-Based Community Development process?”https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d/files/770257ce-dfe6-4df2-b884-91789cd362f3/Mastercopy_4_Essential_Elements_of_ABCD_Process_1_.pdf Community
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2018Chris Dayson et al. 'The value of small: In-depth research into the distinctive contribution, value, and experiences of small and medium-sized charities in England and Wales.  This paper has, for the first time, made an explicit link between distinctive characteristics and the social value of small and medium-sized charities create for individuals and the wider community, including the cross-cutting added value associated with the work they undertakehttps://gallery.mailchimp.com/a694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d/files/bbf196cb-84a6-4cd0-b2dd-dbb8456538a2/value_of_small_final.01.pdf Community
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2018Social prescribing and the digital landscape (Elemental, 2018).  This report looks at digital information and technology and how it can support the development of social prescribing.https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d/files/febf550e-22dc-428b-8e82-4db4aae367bf/socialprescribingdigital_landscapereport.pdf Inequalities
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2018Social Prescribing in Torfaen 2017-18Social Prescribing in Torfaen Annual report 2017-2018 An in-depth review of the services in its third year.  https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d/files/2dad2075-38ec-4d6b-ac49-daf02eca071e/Social_Prescribing_in_Torfaen_2017_18_FINAL.pdf International
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2018Self-Care Social Prescribing Kensington & Chelsea Social Council and NHS West London Clinical Commissioning Group , SROI, 2018A new Social Return on Investment report has been produced by Envoy Partnership who were commissioned to conduct research to evaluate the impact of the model and analyse the Self-Care social prescribing model.  The report demonstrates that the model has led to a reduced avoidable need for hospitalisations, reduced need for GP practice hours, and reduced levels of physical pain and depression for patients.  https://www.kcsc.org.uk/sites/kcsc.org.uk/civi_files/files/civicrm/persist/contribute/files/Self%20Care/7641_SROI-Report_DIGITAL_AW.pdf Economics
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2019FACTSHEET - What is the evidence on the role of arts in improving health and well-being in WHO European Region? WHO, 2019 The Health Evidence Network (HEN) synthesis report on arts and health, which will be launched on 11 November 2019, maps the global academic literature on this subject in both English and Russian. It references over 900 publications, including 200 reviews covering over 3000 further studies. As such, the report represents the most comprehensive evidence review of arts and health to date.  A summary of findings is on this factsheet.  Follow @Daisy_Fancourt to keep up-to-date with this.https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d/files/900a6411-424d-4617-8d31-9a6aadcf2b03/WHO_2pp_Arts_Factsheet_v6a.pdf Arts, Culture, Heritage
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2019Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing Briefing for STP and ICS Planning, Kent Surrey Sussex Academic Health Science Network Health: The Arts for Health & Wellbeing - briefing for STP & ICS Planning. 2019. The Kent Surrey Sussex Academic Health Science Network has partnered with the APPG for Arts, Health & Wellbeing and Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance on a briefing for Integrated Care System planning. https://www.culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk/sites/default/files/Creative%20Health%20Briefing%20for%20ICS%20Planning%20FINAL_0.pdf Arts, Culture, HeritageBriefing doc
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2019Polley M. et al. Evaluation Report of the Social Prescribing Demonstrator Site in Shropshire – Final Report, 2019.This report details the implementation process and impact of introducing social prescribing in Shropshire, an initiative led by Help2Change, Shropshire council in collaboration with GP practices.  The project had no additional funding, but utilised existing resources in a different way.  The report documents impact on outcomes, stakeholder experiences and health service usagehttps://gallery.mailchimp.com/a694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d/files/8bfcc917-10d9-4427-8b20-10a708714676/Final_report_social_prescribing_demonstrator_site_evaluation_report_250719.pdf Evaluation
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2019A review of Claremont’s Social Prescribing ProjectClaremont Social Prescribing Project The Claremont Social Prescribing Project, funded by Islington Giving, has been running a local Social Prescribing project over the last seven years (2012-2019) and is currently funded until April 2022. Their report intends to share our learning from the project with a wider audience to contribute to the Social Prescribing conversation.http://52.56.113.172/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Claremont-Social-Prescribing-Evaluation-Nov19.pdf Evaluation
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2019Polley M and Richards R, 2019, A guide to selecting patient reported outcomes measures (PROMs) for social prescribing.  This guide supports decision making when selecting appropriate outcome measures for research, evaluation and monitoring of social prescribing. It is accompanied by an excel spreadsheet of information on PROMs in social prescribing, which acts as a decision making tool.  Read the tool from left to right to identify key features of outcome measures you may be considering using.https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d/files/7afadf00-7196-4501-9ed8-6a2504033d1b/A_guide_to_selecting_outcomes_measures_in_social_prescribing_final.pdf Evaluation
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2019The Life Rooms Annual Report 2019The Life Rooms service in Merseyside has shared their latest report and findings. https://www.liferooms.org/media/3eunyyno/the-life-rooms-annual-report-2019.pdf Evaluation
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2019Bertotti et al, 2019. A map of the UK literature on navigation roles in primary care: Social Prescribing Link Workers in Context A map of the UK literature on navigation roles in primary care: Social Prescribing Link Workers in Context (Bertotti et al, 2019). This study looks at the different job roles that are involved in social prescribing and how these roles work together and maps differences and similarities.https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d/files/46185571-d471-473c-8f88-b26de4684cc4/Sys_Map_of_navigator_roles_final_sub_Bertotti_et_al_UEL.pdf Workforce
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2019Social Prescribing Link Worker Welcome Pack, NHSE 2019There are a range of resources on NHS England's website that support the implementation of social prescribing and personalised care.  This social prescribing link worker welcome pack was launched in 2019.https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/social-prescribing-link-worker-welcome-pack-web.pdf Workforce
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2019Driving forward social prescribing: A framework for Allied Health Professionals, The Royal Society for Public Health, Public Health England and NHS Improvement, 2019Social Prescribing Framework for Allied Health Professionals The Royal Society for Public Health, Public Health England and NHS Improvement have developed a framework to support AHPs to increase social prescribing.https://www.rsph.org.uk/our-work/resources/ahp-social-prescribing-frameworks.html Workforce
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2019McDaid D, Damant J, Park A-L. Identifying the potential value of sustained participation in community activities arising from referral through social prescribing. Personal Social Services Research Unit, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, 2019Identifying the potential value of sustained participation in community activities arising from referral through social prescribing (McDaid et al, 2019).  This report identifies evidence on the relative strengths of activities that typically have been used as part of social prescribing, such as referral to group based social activities, community volunteering and development activities, life-long learning and use of welfare / debt advice services.https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d/files/2b2eb1f5-acdf-4e2d-833e-93ec9b1402d8/Activitiesguide.pdf Community
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2019The Asset-Based Health Inquiry - How best to develop social prescribing, London South Bank University, 2019.  This is an interesting look at how current practices of social prescribing are working.  Another great read with thought provoking points of view.https://www.lsbu.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/251190/lsbu_asset-based_health_inquiry.pdf Community
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2019Guidance on Yoga in Social PrescribingResearch finds that yoga offers health benefit both through social-connectedness and also via the elements of practice such as controlled breathing, stretching, and meditation.  The College of Medicine has formed a think tank with leading yoga professionals to provide guidance around yoga classes that are social prescribing friendly.  These guidelines are offered as a frame of reference for professionals referring patients to yoga as a social prescribing activity.https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fgallery.mailchimp.com%2Fa694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d%2Ffiles%2Fd910f70d-4721-4b32-bd1a-fe93abc572b7%2Fyoga_social_prescribing.doc&wdOrigin=BROWSELINK Physical Activity
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2019Dance to Health Phase 1, Volunteering Evaluation, 2019 Evaluation of volunterring within Dance to Healthhttps://mcusercontent.com/a694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d/files/5820235b-6fe1-4e58-9a59-f656fc3718d5/AESOP_Dance_to_Health_Phase_1_Volunteering_evaluation_2019.pdf Physical Activity
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2019Food growing on prescription (Sustain, 2019)This report highlights the findings of a short piece of research undertaken with community gardens and food growing projects in London, to create a snapshot of how Social Prescribing is perceived, how garden leaders are or want to be engaging with these services and how to overcome the barriers to more people being referred to garden-based activities.https://www.sustainweb.org/publications/food_growing_on_prescription/ Green
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2019Mulligan, K. SOCIAL PRESCRIBING IN ONTARIO Progress Report June 2019Social Prescribing in Ontario. This evaluation report was produced by Dr Kate Mulligan and team at the Alliance for Healthier Communities, which represents community-governed primary healthcare organisations offering health and social services under one roof.  This report details the learning and impact of 1,100 clients using social prescribing across 11 community health centres. https://www.allianceon.org/sites/default/files/documents/Rx-Community-Progress-Report-EN-June2019-web.pdfInternational
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2019An Integrated Community Development Approach to Improving The Health & Wellbeing of Older People. ImpactAgewellThis report aims to share with you the IMPACTAgewell® partners’ journey in Mid & East Antrim, together with a robust and honest evaluation of the outcome. We think that they have hit on the right recipe for their community and we’re really looking forward to sharing the next stage of the journey so that other communities and even more older people can benefit.21-01-20-FINAL-IMPACTAgewell-Sharing-Our-Learning-Report.pdf (dunhillmedical.org.uk)Older peopleevaluation
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2020Music for Social Impact an overview of context, policy and activity in four countries, Belgium, Colombia, Finland, and the UK (FINAL) (gsmd.ac.uk)Musichttps://www.gsmd.ac.uk/fileadmin/user_upload/files/Research/OpenAccess_PDFs/Sloboda_et_al_FJME_2020_Music_for_Social_Impact_an_overview__FINAL_.pdf Arts, Culture, HeritageInternational
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2020Turk A. et al., Can gardens, libraries and museums improve wellbeing through social prescribing? A digest of current knowledge and engagement activities, CEBM and University of Oxford, 2020A new report from Oxford University, entitled “In what ways can gardens, libraries and museums improve wellbeing through social prescribing?”, brings together the experience and expertise of health researchers in the University's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM), general practitioners, heritage sector specialists in the University’s Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM), and members of the public. The research identified three key concepts that underpin the potential of garden, library and museum activities for improving health. https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/research/social-prescribing/gardens-libraries-and-museums-for-well-being Arts, Culture, HeritageGreen SP
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2020Cutler, D. Creatively Minded, The Baring Foundation. 2020The Creatively Minded report is an of initial mapping of the Arts & Mental Health field in the UK recently published by The Baring Foundation.  The report includes some arts organisations engaged in social prescribing and considers the context, including the recent changes in attitudes to mental health, national and local policy and cross-cutting issues such as the relationship between social inequalities and mental ill-health, diversity and intersectionality, and artists’ self-care.  The report provides an overview of activity identified through the research, according to art form, type of organisation and setting and concludes with some initial reflections on the field.  https://baringfoundation.org.uk/resource/creatively-minded/ Arts, Culture, Heritage
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2020Heritage, Health & Wellbeing by The Heritage Alliance, 2020While the case for arts and culture supporting wellbeing is well developed, there is comparatively less understanding of the power of heritage to help people to “feel good”. This report examines the existing evidence in this space, before showcasing more than 30 case studies from Heritage Alliance members. These case studies cover the breadth of the work in their sector, from yoga in a historic house to a group of disabled adults empowered to put on a club night at Alexandra Palace. The report considers these case studies, and the sector’s experiences more widely, to make recommendations to the heritage sector, the health sector, and the government. https://www.theheritagealliance.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Heritage-Alliance-AnnualReport_2020_Online.pdf Arts, Culture, Heritagecase studies
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2020Submission to House of Lords covid-19 committee on “Life beyond Covid”, 2020The Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance convened member and partner organisations to submit a response to the House of Lords covid-19 committee call. The Social Prescribing Network was delighted to be involved with this and you can access the findings and the submission to the House of Lords covid-19 committee herehttps://www.culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk/news/general-news/submission-house-lords-covid-19-committee-life-beyond-covid Arts, Culture, HeritageReponse to House of Lords call
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2020Polley M et al. What does successful social prescribing look like? Mapping meaningful outcomes (2020).Funded by the National Lottery Community Fund, this study aimed to investigate and collate all the outcomes that are being experienced in link worker based social prescribing schemes in the UK.  A large evidence gap where research money needs to be invested was identified.  This study highlighted 60% of outcomes identified in this research are not being measured, particularly those associated with wider determinants of health. This is where the VCSE organisations engaged with social prescribing are not receiving full attribution for their contribution to improving the health and wellbeing of people.   A rethink of the underlying paradigm of social prescribing is needed and a community capitals framework is recommended.https://mcusercontent.com/a694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d/files/f1b16ebf-1879-4107-8981-91049ad6702d/Polley_et_al_2020_Mapping_meaningful_outcomes_in_Social_Prescribing.pdf Evaluation
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2020Munoz, Teje and Bailey, Evaluating social prescribing, Iriss 2020 This evaluation provides a review of the research methods and approaches used to evaluate UK-based social prescribing in recent years.  https://www.iriss.org.uk/resources/insights/evaluating-social-prescribing Evaluation
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2020Polley, M and Seers, H. Enabling the Potential of Social Prescribing, The Conservation Volunteers, 2020This report was funded by the National Lottery Community Fund and examined the funding landscape for social prescribing before and during the pandemic, across the UK. It summarises what capacity exists in the VCSE sector, sets out how social prescribing responded during the first wave of the pandemic, explored how link workers were central to connecting existing assets and sets out recommendations for sustaining social prescribing in the future.https://www.tcv.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/tcv-social-prescribing-potential.pdf WorkforceFunding
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2020Cole, A et al. Rolling out Social Prescribing - Understanding the experience of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector by National Voices. 2020This report sets out the findings of research conducted by National Voices for NHS England to explore the perspectives and experiences of the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector in relation to the NHS rollout of social prescribing. We heard from over 300 people through a series of interviews, workshops and online engagements between December 2019 and June 2020.https://www.nationalvoices.org.uk/publications/our-publications/rolling-out-social-prescribing#overlay-context=blogs/getting-social-prescribing-right Workforce
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2020Michael Marmot, Jessica Allen, Tammy Boyce, Peter Goldblatt, Joana Morrison (2020) Health Equity in England: The Marmot Review ten years on. London: Institute of Health Equity This is the much awaited 10 Year update from Sir Michael Marmot and team at the Institute of Health Equity.  For the first time in more than 100 years life expectancy has failed to increase across the country, and for the poorest 10% of women it has actually declined. Over the last decade health inequalities have widened overall, and the amount of time people spend in poor health has increased since 2010.https://www.instituteofhealthequity.org/the-marmot-review-10-years-on Inequalities
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2020Dance to health Phase 1 Overall evaluation report. An overall evaluation with lessons for all arts and health programmes. Aesop and Sheffield Hallam University Sport Industry Research Centre, 2020.Aesop Dance to Health Evaluation New research from Aesop and Sheffield Hallam University Sport Industry Research Centre shows dance with special ‘active ingredients’ can deliver an effective solution to the health challenge of older people’s falls while saving the NHS money. https://mcusercontent.com/a694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d/files/d207404f-24f8-4346-a7d9-d87a7757c62f/AESOP_Dance_to_Health_Phase_1_Overall_evaluation_Report_April_2020_FINAL.pdf Physical Activity
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2020Dance to Health Evaluation, final report. An independent health evaluation commissioned by Aesop from Sheffield Hallam University Sport Industry Research Centre. Aesop and Sheffield Hallam University Sport Industry Research Centre, 2020.This found that the Dance to Health programme can reduce falls by 58% and significantly reduce admissions to hospital.https://mcusercontent.com/a694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d/files/cf46a651-c83e-49ea-b98a-15e044cafd8b/DANCE_TO_HEALTH_evaluation_by_SHU_SIRC_final_report_May_2020.pdf Physical Activity
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2020Bertotti , M. et al. A two-year evaluation of the Young People Social Prescribing (YPSP) pilot An outcome, process and economic evaluation of social prescribing for young people in three English sites, Institute for Connected Communities (ICC), University of East London, December 2020The Institute for Connected Communities at the University of East London led a two-year evaluation of social prescribing for young people in three English sites, Sheffield, Luton and Brighton & Hove in collaboration with StreetGames and organisations in the three sites (Sheffield Futures, Active Luton, and YMCA DownsLink) (see https://repository.uel.ac.uk/item/88x15 for the full report). To our knowledge, this is the first evaluation of social prescribing in England to specifically focus on young people and examines personal wellbeing, mental wellbeing, loneliness, social capital and physical activity of young people between 11-25 years old in three different social prescribing schemes across England over a six months period. It also explores the experience of young people through focus groups conducted by UEL trained young people (young commissioners). In addition, through qualitative interviews with other stakeholders (including link workers), we also looked at the barriers and facilitators of social prescribing for young people models and conducted a social return on investment (SROI) of one of the sites (Sheffield). Overall, we found statistically significant positive changes in personal wellbeing and mental wellbeing. These changes were particularly important for those respondents who had a low score at baseline indicating that social prescribing may have supported those most in need. We included a set of recommendations and key principles to guide the development of social prescribing for young people that may be useful to practitioners and commissioners. https://repository.uel.ac.uk/download/5c63906437d90e4093a320b51355232d12648ab00d6df93137b1aefa74dfc892/851983/SP%20for%20young%20people%20evaluation%20final%20report%20for%20publication.pdf M, C, YPEvaluation
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2020Making Connections Walsall Social Prescribing Service Summary Evaluation Report, Walsall Council - January 2020Walsall Council’s social prescribing programme, Making Connections Walsall, has been working with people aged 50+ since October 2017. It has been a valued programme, helping to boost people’s confidence, fostering new and lasting friendships and throwing people a lifeline.  M·E·L Research carried out a Social Return on Investment (SROI) evaluation of the programme, which has already helped to secure continuation funding. https://www.walsallintelligence.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2020/03/MCW-Evaluation-Report-1.pdf EconomicsEvaluation
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2021Veronica Franklin Gould A.R.T.S. for Brain Health: Social Prescribing as Diagnostic Practice for Dementia From Despair to Desire: Findings from Arts 4 Dementia’s two-year programme to help advance social prescribing at the onset of dementia symptoms September 2021The report aims to transform early diagnostic practice for dementia, to refer patients at the onset of symptoms, to social prescribing for empowering arts opportunities to preserve brain health. A.R.T.S. (Activities to Revitalise The Soul) for Brain Health presents findings from Arts 4 Dementia's two-year campaign to achieve social prescribing as automatic practice for dementia. The report addresses diagnostic and social prescribing practice, modifying risk factors for dementia through healthy and creative ageing, A.R.T.S practice to preserve brain health, programme partnerships and funding.https://arts4dementia.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Arts-for-Brain-Health-19-Sep-index-page-refs.pdf Arts, Culture, HeritageDementia
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2021Helen Shearn, Impact Report: Freedom to Be at Free Space Project, 2021Freedom to Be was a creative project delivered by us in the summer of the first COVID lockdown, 2020, with funding from the National Lottery Community Fund. This project supported patients that were shielding at the James Wigg and Queens Crescent GP practices. With extra support and donations from our staff they were able to put together a number of high-quality art boxes that were hand delivered to patients in Camden. Each week patients were given activity sheets and art materials to creatively respond to their experiences of the pandemic. In order to showcase the work that was created an exhibition of the work at Kentish Town Health Centre is being held and there is a short film with interviews from doctors and patients about the impact of the project.  https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f34052e24f5161a1d9cb72b/t/60a2844f1d2074002e6c88ed/1621263444472/freedom+to+be+evaluation+%28low+res%29.pdf Arts, Culture, Heritage
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2021Carolyn Wallace et al. UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL PRESCRIBING IN WALES: A MIXED METHODS STUDY. A final report September 2021Professor Carolyn Wallace and the team at the Wales School for Social Prescribing Research (WSSPR) and PRIME Centre Wales, based at the University of South Wales (USW), have been working in partnership with Data Cymru and Public Health Wales to quantify and describe the functions of social prescribing in Wales. The study was funded and coordinated by Public Health Wales within the context of Welsh Government (2020) ‘Connected Communities: a strategy for tackling loneliness and social isolation and building stronger social connections’.https://mcusercontent.com/a694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d/files/9aa9f6d6-5360-ca83-c675-df9ad2e2bf8c/PHW_SP_Report_FINAL_11.10.21b.pdf Evaluation
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2021Tara Case et al. Ways to Wellness: The First Six Years Approach, Findings and Learning Sharing learning from the first six years of Ways to Wellness: a social prescribing programme for people with long term conditions in Newcastle upon Tyne, delivered using social impact bond investment. 2021The Ways to Wellness social prescribing service was launched in April 2015, to support people with long-term conditions in the west of Newcastle upon Tyne. Their recent report, ‘Ways to Wellness: The First Six Years’ explains their approach in more detail, and what has been learned since the service was established. The executive summary, full report plus video clips from patients, link workers, and key stakeholders is available online.https://waystowellness.org.uk/site/assets/files/1404/wtw-publication-digital-aug21.pdf EvaluationReturn on investment
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2021Polley M, Seers H and Johnson R. (2021) Tandridge District Council Wellbeing Prescription Service Evaluation – Final Report.Evaluation report: Tandridge District Council Wellbeing Prescription Service. A new evaluation report from Tandridge District Council has been published exploring the remit and impact of the Wellbeing Prescription Service. This is a social prescribing service that has been running in Tandridge, Surrey since 2016. The evaluation is a great insight into the performance of this social prescribing service, the impact of Covid pandemic, and how well this service performed in these difficult conditions.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353038388_TANDRIDGE_DISTRICT_COUNCIL_WELLBEING_PRESCRIPTION_SERVICE_FINAL_EVALUATION_REPORT_APRIL_2021#fullTextFileContent Evaluation
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2021Pop-up Institute for Social Prescribing’s latest report March 2021Social prescribing Case studies and insight from practitioners in the South West of England – this report shares learning and insight, to help inform what is needed for the adoption and spread of social prescribing in the South West and beyond.https://www.swahsn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SWAHSN-Social-Prescribing-Insight-Report-Master-Final_FEB21.pdf Workforce
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2021Willatt A., Jones D., Kyle, R.G., Davies, A.R. (2021). Emerging Drivers of Vulnerability to Health Inequity in the Context of COVID-19: Perspectives and response from the Voluntary and Community Sector in Wales. Cardiff: Public Health Wales.Inequalities in Waleshttps://mcusercontent.com/a694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d/files/99c8574d-63f7-14e0-3fc2-7be9d4dae0ba/Emerging_Vulnerabilities_report_2_002_.pdf Inequalities
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2021Caring as a social determinant of health. Findings from a rapid review of reviews and analysis of the GP Patient Survey. March 2021 The report shows that there is evidence that carers experience worse health than non-carers, suggesting that unpaid caring responsibilities should be considered a social determinant of health. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/971115/Caring_as_a_social_determinant_report.pdf Inequalities
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2021Kamal Mahtani et al. Oxford Social Prescribing Network: How can the cultural sector support older people’s well-being as part of social prescribing within the context of a pandemic? Interim results from a multi-methods study 2021older people and social prescribinghttps://socialprescribing.phc.ox.ac.uk/files/resources/osprnpolicydocfinal.pdf Older PeopleCovid-19
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2021Kirsty Rose Parker, Love to Move: A Social Return on Investment. British Gymnastics Association, The Evaluator, 2021.Love to Move – A dementia friendly exercise programme with cognitive benefits. Love to Move is specially designed to get older people moving and functioning better. The programme achieves this by carefully integrating the use of gymnastic foundation skills, cognitive stimulation and social interaction activities, all carried out to music. Components of Love to Move are based on bilaterally asymmetrical movement patterns as well as co-ordination exercises. These are understood to benefit older people and those living with dementia, Parkinson’s and other forms of cognitive impairment, by enabling the left side and right side of the brain to process information independently, thus improving cognitive function, coordination and the ability to carry out activities of daily living more independently and re-engage with loved ones and others. A Social Return on Investment study carried out last year on Love to Move found that every £1 invested in the programme gave social return on investment of £28.24. https://britishgymnasticsfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/FINAL-Love-to-Move-SROI-Aug-2020.pdf Physical ActivitySocial return on investment
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2021Nature on Prescription Handbook, 2021A new handbook has been created for organisations and providers of Nature on Prescription to help understand how green social prescribing can help people improve their mental health and help conditions such as depression, anxiety and stress. The free resource from researchers at the European Centre for Environment and Human Heath at the University of Exeter and PenARC, provides guidance and best practice for organisations providing Nature on Prescription, helping them to develop beneficial, safe and sustainable services. The handbook may also be of interest for GPs, link workers and others in this evolving area of green social prescribing.https://www.ecehh.org/research/nature-prescription-handbook/ Green
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2021ADDRESSING SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH IN A PANDEMIC Providing e-Social Prescribing to our Elderly, SingHealth Community Hospitals, Sinagpore, March 2021We are delighted to share this report on "addressing social determinants of health in a pandemic" from from the winners of Best International Social Prescribing Scheme - the Singapore team who work for SingHealth Community Hospitals.  They have been implementing social prescribing into their hospitals for the last 3 years. Singapore has seen a small increase in community cases of COVID recently which has impacted the community and hospital settings...so more review and re-strategising is happening - as it is everywhere! https://mcusercontent.com/a694bc0ff11d9dd94b05ccd0d/files/4fa3b123-f481-3f45-263d-954916793fc1/eSP_Report_2021.pdf InternationalHospitals
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2021An Integrated Community Development Approach to Improving The Health & Wellbeing of Older People .ImpactAgewell - Year 4 Evaluation update ImpactAgewellThis report loos at the date from Year 4 and builds on results from previous years to provide an oversview of savings to date. IMPACTAgewell-Sharing-Our-Learning-Year-4-Evaluation-Update.pdf (meaap.co.uk)Older peopleevaluationreturn on investment
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2021Guidelines for involving people with mental health issues in heritage projectsThis UKRI MARCH Network Plus funded project, carried out between November 2020 and May 2021, saw an expert panel develop best practice guidelines for organisations offering heritage projects as interventions for people who live with mental health issues. This was achieved through a Delphi process, which utilised the skills of those with lived experience of mental health issues as well as mental health and heritage professionals equally, bringing together their expertise to create a practical and beneficial tool based on real-life experience.MARCH Plus Project (solent.ac.uk)guidelinesheritagemental health
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2022Mughal R, Thomson L.J, Chatterjee H.J (2021) Determining and maximising the benefits of heritage environments for community and individual health and wellbeing. London: University College LondonThis research provides substantial evidence for the value of cultural assets, such as National Trust properties, in tackling health diparitites and supporting the levelling-up agendaheritagegreen2
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2021Evaluation fo the Movement for All programmeIt shouldn’t matter that you’re 35 or 65, live with two health conditions or are in perfect health – the right range of opportunities, experiences and support should be available for everyone. That is why I am so proud of our partnership with The Richmond Group of Charities to support those who need our help the most to become and stay active and better manage their conditions. This report summarises the innovative and collaborative work of these charities whose projects and partnerships are helping to establish where there are gaps in provision, what works to fill them and what we can all do differently in the future. I strongly encourage everyone working in health and sport and activity to take note and act on these recommendations because when we move, we are stronger.Evaluation of the Movement for All Programme PDF v13 (richmondgroupofcharities.org.uk)physical activityhealth conditionsevaluation
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2017Polley M & Kovandzic M. Evaluation fo the Reading Well for young people scheme. Project report, University of Westminster, LondonThe aim of this evaluation was to understand the immediate effect the Reading Well for young people - ‘Shelf Help’ books had in a secondary school setting. Our objectives focused on recording and assessing any intended and unintended outcomes of the overall students’ engagement with the books from the reading list, mindful of each stage of the intervention and any contingent interactions. This involved the following specific steps. 1. To record and assess type and level of engagement of students with the book list and the books; 2. To identify incentives and obstacles to reading the books from the list 3. To record and assess the immediate effects of reading the books 4. To record participants’ anticipation of any further effects of the intervention 5. To record participants’ ideas and suggestions for the improvement of the intervention; 6. To construct a theory of change applicable to similar interventions in the similar contexts It is intended that the sum knowledge derived from this evaluation can provide background evidence and theoretical assumptions for further research in this area e.g. a longer-term in-depth evaluation.(PDF) Evaluation of the Reading Well for young people Scheme (researchgate.net)CYPmental healthreading
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