Award of Preventative Services including Social Prescribing Service and Befriending

AWARD ONLY OF:- The Social Prescribing Service and the Befriending Service for a range of preventative services and approaches. Social prescribing is an approach to healthcare that recognises that people's health, emotional and practical needs are all connected.

Meeting people's non-medical needs can benefit their health and wellbeing. It enables a range of professional including GPs, nurses and other health and social care professionals to refer (or 'prescribe') people to a range of local, non-clinical services.

The services comprise:- 1. Provision of practical support to vulnerable people. Building community capacity by linking people together and also identifying volunteers who can support them. 2.Befriending for people who are very socially isolated. 3.Time limited 'enabling' to support people to access community services - this could be through a volunteer or a paid employee 4.More intensive 1-1 and longer term support where needed by trained professionals (broadly time limited). 5.Building community capacity - opportunities to support the development of new groups and activities where a need is identified.