Social prescribing
Social prescribing (also known as community referral) is when doctors prescribe something for a person which is not a drug. They are most likely to do this if the persons problems are more social than medical. [1] The idea has caught on in the National Health Service, in Ireland[2] and the Netherlands[3]
All sorts of things can be prescribed in this way. Most common is to help them join a local social group. In London in 2022 general practitioners started prescribing fruit and vegetables to test if that helped people. [4]
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- ↑ Bickerdike L, Booth A, Wilson PM, Farley K, Wright K (13 December 2016). "Social prescribing: less rhetoric and more reality. A systematic review of the evidence". BMJ Open. 2017 (7): e013384. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013384. PMC 5558801. PMID 28389486.
- ↑ "What is social prescribing and how it can benefit your health". Irish Times. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
- ↑ "Community activity as a path to better health". Financial Times. 20 November 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
- ↑ Lind, Sofia (2022-11-11). "GPs in London start prescribing fruit and veg in £250k pilot". Pulse Today. Retrieved 2023-02-08.