Social Prescribing Day 2025
Social prescribing is fundamental to the vision of NHS England and NHS Improvement to deliver personalised care to millions of people through the NHS Long Term Plan.
What is Social Prescribing?
Connecting people to activities, groups and support that improve health and wellbeing. Many things that affect our health can’t be treated by doctors or medicine alone.
It is an approach that connects people to activities, groups, and services within their community to meet the practical, social, and emotional needs that affect their health and wellbeing.
Social prescribing connects people to non-medical support to address these issues and other unmet needs.
This could involve a Social Prescribing Link Worker or an equivalent role:
- Helping someone who is isolated join a befriending group, an art class or a community gardening project, based on what works for them.
- Connecting someone struggling with financial stress to a service that helps with managing debt or claiming benefits.
- Supporting someone with dementia to join a dementia choir, enabling them to maintain a sense of social connection.
- Working with someone with high blood pressure to take up a form of exercise that they’re comfortable with.
