Resource Library: Social Prescribing
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Is social prescribing effective?
For staff working in health and social care, for people delivering activities in their local community, for people who are looking for support, and the people who care about them, it is important to understand whether the evidence confirms that social prescribing can help deliver what they need.
Green Social Prescribing Toolkit
The Green Social Prescribing Toolkit. It has been developed by the Green Social Prescribing Pilot programme partners to share the learning from the 7 Test and Learn Pilots and help communities, organisations and health professionals who are looking to set up GSP. Green Social Prescribing - National Academy for Social Prescribing | NASP (socialprescribingacademy.org.uk)
The toolkit includes:
- Information about specific projects involved in the pilot
- Templates and guidelines for getting started and best practice
- Links to evaluation and research
- Links to other useful resources
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It is now well-established that humans have an innate need to experience the natural world. As such, there is a large body of evidence associating nature exposure to several facets of positive physiological and psychological outcomes. However, this association is dependent on a range of socio-demographic factors and there remain some gaps in the literature evidencing causal mechanisms. This evidence review provides a summary of this literature, with a particular focus on nature-based social prescribing interventions. The evidence presented below is mostly derived from nature exposure (i.e., proximity, access, frequency, and time spent in nature and/ or quality of nature) rather than research looking at how people feel about their connection to nature or “nature connectedness”. As the evidence base grows these two areas of research will become more distinct.
