
ALT “While the NHS roll-out of social prescribing has proved successful, the next steps should include ensuring long-term, sustainable support for community-led schemes. Bringing together funding from different sources to develop locally designed programmes, and ensuring these are well connected to the health system, can have huge benefits. This approach can play an important role in the shift to prevention and to more health support being available in communities rather than hospitals.”

ALT Text reads: New evidence report. The impact of social prescribing on health service use and costs. There were reductions in service usage by patients accessing social prescribing. 42.2% Reduction in GP appointments among 1,751 patients, In Tameside and Glossop. 15.4% - 23.6%. Reduction in A&E attendances among 5,908 patients, in Kent. Data showed that social prescribing had a positive economic impact. 9.4% lower secondary care costs compared to a control group, in Newcastle. Up to a 39% Reduction in costs for A&E attendance from frequent users, in Rotherham.






























