SOCIAL PRESCRIBING LINK WORKER SERVICE (SPLW)

Social prescribing is a service designed to support people with a wide range of social, emotional or practical needs with the focus on improving mental health and physical well-being.

Social Prescribing Link Workers  link people to a wide range of non-clinical activities which are typically provided by voluntary and community sector organisations. SPLWs work with local partners to support community groups to be accessible, sustainable and where appropriate help people start new groups.

Social prescribing works for a wide range of patients, including persons:

• with one or more long-term conditions

• who need support with low-level mental health

• who are lonely or isolated

• who have complex social needs which affect their well-being

• who are carers

• who are frequently attending either primary or secondary health care.

This service is currently only for people over 18. It is not an emergency or urgent care service.

You can access a social prescribing link worker if you are registered with a GP practice. You can be referred by a clinician, GP, Nurse, HCA, pharmacist or anyone who works in your medical practice.

Once a referral has been received, you will be contacted by a social prescribing link worker and offered an appointment.