NHS England plans to recruit 1,000 'social prescribers' to refer patients to local activities.
The number of workers trained to prescribe social activities, like exercise groups and art classes, to GP patients who don't need pills, is set to rise, under NHS England plans.A link worker's role is to help patients find suitable community activities to improve their health and wellbeing.In the long term, it wants link workers to handle around 900,000 patient appointments a year.
But he says he wouldn't have joined the football group, or found it, if hadn't been been for the nudge from the NHS and his link worker, who keeps in touch and assesses his progress regularly. "Social prescribing is an important component of the NHS comprehensive model of personalised care and there is emerging evidence that it can lead to a range of positive health and wellbeing outcomes for people, such as improved quality of life and emotional wellbeing," he said.
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