Changing lives, changing places, changing systems

Changing lives, changing places, changing systems - making progress on social prescribing, follows up on our 2020 report Rolling out social prescribing: Understanding the experience of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.

It explores what needs to happen to engage a wider set of stakeholders with planning, funding and delivering social prescribing services and the community activities, groups and services upon which they rely across places and within new Integrated Care Systems. It explores the structures needed to support collaborative planning and delivery, how improving data flows could encourage more partners to get involved, and how we can improve the way we communicate about social prescribing, to make clearer how it fits into wider plans for transforming health and care across communities and supporting people to improve their health and wellbeing.

The findings are drawn from a programme of roundtables held in Summer 2021 in partnership with New Philanthropy Capital. The programme was supported by NHS England and NHS Improvement.