The impact of a social prescribing service on patients in primary care: a mixed methods evaluation

Abstract Background Social prescribing is targeted at isolated and lonely patients. Practitioners and patients jointly develop bespoke well-being plans to promote social integration and or social reactivation. Our aim was to investigate: whether a social prescribing service could be implemented in a...

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Main Authors: Dawn Carnes, Ratna Sohanpal, Caroline Frostick, Sally Hull, Rohini Mathur, Gopalakrishnan Netuveli, Jin Tong, Patrick Hutt, Marcello Bertotti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-12-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-017-2778-y