Volunteer organisations across Lancashire and South Cumbria have been pushed to “crisis point” by the number of people being referred to them for support by the NHS.
That was the warning to an influential health and social care committee which heard how the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sector in the region had come under pressure as a result of a rapid increase in what is known as “social prescribing”. In recent years, the concept has become a widely-used method of helping individuals with non-medical issues which can nevertheless affect their health and wellbeing.
The integrated care partnership has agreed to work with the National Academy for Social Prescribing to become an “early demonstrator site” for the latter’s proposals to create a social prescribing shared investment fund.
Social prescribing is “a means for trusted individuals in clinical and community settings to identify that a person has non-medical, health-related social needs and to subsequently connect them to non-clinical supports and services within the community by co-producing a social prescription - a non-medical prescription, to improve health and wellbeing and to strengthen community connections”.
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