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Social prescribing for mental health: briefing paper
- Authors:
- FRIEDLI Lynne, WATSON Stuart
- Publisher:
- Northern Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 56p.
- Place of publication:
- Durham
Social prescribing is a mechanism for linking patients in primary care with community servivces and care. This report aims to demonstrate opportunities for linking mental health promotion to the broader public health and regeneration agenda, and, extending the commitment to mental health promotion across the system. There is a need to make the case for the added value of mental health promotion to the Modernisation Boards within the NHS, and to a wide variety of other stakeholders. It will require a strategic approach with local authority responsibility for economic and social wellbeing, and the increase in education about citizenship.
Prescriptions for pleasure
- Authors:
- BROWN Martin, FRIEDLI Lynne, WATSON Stuart
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, June 2004, pp.20-23.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Social prescribing links patients in primary care with non-medical sources of support within the community. It is part of a wider recognition of the influence of social and cultural factors on mental health outcomes. This article is based on a new evidence review commissioned by the Northern Centre for Mental Health to support the wider use of social prescribing in primary care to achieve more positive outcomes for vulnerable client groups, including people with mild to moderate depression and anxiety and people with long term difficulties. Highlights some evaluated models of social prescribing and looks at their success.