26/03/2026
Our social prescribing team is a vital part of the practice because they support patients in ways that go beyond traditional medical care- helping improve overall wellbeing, not just treating illness.
At PHD we are passionate about the impact our Social Prescribing Team makes in the community.
WHAT IS SOCIAL PRESCRIBING?
Many things that affect our health cannot be treated by doctors or medicine alone, like loneliness, isolation or stress due to problems with debt, work, housing or parenting (to name but a few).
Social prescribing connects people to non-medical support to address these issues and other unmet needs.
This could involve a Social Prescribing Link Worker:
Helping someone who is isolated to join a befriending group, an art class or a community gardening project, based on what matters to them.
Connecting someone struggling with financial stress to a service that helps with managing debt or claiming benefits.
Working with someone with high blood pressure to take up a form of exercise that they’re comfortable with. Social prescribing involves understanding the complexities of people’s lives and the inequalities they may face.
It can help change the circumstances that make people unwell and empower people to manage existing health problems. It can help people to connect and to grow in confidence.
Child and youth social prescribing sits at the intersection of prevention, early intervention, mental health, education and community development. When child and youth social prescribing is commissioned and delivered well, it can reduce pressure on statutory services, strengthen prevention and early intervention and improve wellbeing by connecting children and young people to support that fits their lives and needs.
If you feel that you could benefit from Social Prescribing then it's an easy as a phone call to your GP practice to request a referral to the social prescribing service.
