The impact of a social prescribing service on patients in primary care: a mixed methods evaluation

• Main Authors: Dawn Carnes (Author), Ratna Sohanpal (Author), Caroline Frostick (Author), Sally Hull (Author), Rohini Mathur (Author), Gopalakrishnan Netuveli (Author), Jin Tong (Author), Patrick Hutt (Author), Marcello Bertotti (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Social prescribing is targeted at isolated and lonely patients. Practitioners and patients jointly develop bespoke well-being plans to promote social integration and or social reactivation. Our aim was to investigate: whether a social prescribing service could be implemented in a...