Social Prescribing: Advancing Community-Centred Healthcare
Online Event 19 January 2022, 9:00am - 3:00pm
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9:30am
Chair's Welcome Address
Steve Williams, Project Manager, OASIS Projects
9:40am
Keynote Address: Understanding the Impact of Social Prescribing
- How SP is creating a revolution within NHS services and changing perception around what makes us well
- Latest developments in the roll of social prescribing including the recruitment of link workers within general practice
- How social prescribing is supporting the challenge of tackling health inequality and the social determinants of health
- International developments in social prescribing
James Sanderson, Director of NHS Personalised Care, NHS England and Improvement & CEO, National Academy of Social Prescribing
10:00am
Keynote Address: Establishing the evidence for Social Prescribing
- A population health approach to social prescribing
- Social prescribing and health inequalities. Application in a national demonstrator site programme – the Complete Care Community Programme (CCCP)
- Real world evidence – bibliotherapy and books on prescription
- Evaluating the impact of social prescribing on local health and care services
Professor James Kingsland OBE, President, National Association of Primary Care (UK) and National Clinical Director, Primary Care Home Programme
10:20am
Keynote Address: Social Prescribing Champions: Driving a shift in values and beliefs amongst the current and future generation of healthcare professionals
- Exploring the importance of education and training amongst current and future healthcare professionals
- Discussing the importance of ensuring social prescribing and related principles are a core part of healthcare student/trainee training
- Showcasing current developments including the Social Prescribing Champions Programme (established in collaboration with NHS England and Improvement)
- Showcasing current developments globally including the Global Social Prescribing Alliance
Dr Bogdan Chiva Giurca, Development Lead, Global Social Prescribing Alliance & Clinical Champion Lead, National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP)
10:40am
Questions and Answers Session
11:05am
Networking Break
11:35am
Sustainability of Social Prescribing – Resourcing the VCSE to Ensure the Money Follows the Patient into the Activity or Service
Concia Albert, Head of Social Prescribing. One Westminster
11:55am
The Social Prescribing Evidence Base: Key Findings, Critical Reflections and New Directions
- Key findings and critical reflections based on research on social prescribing since 2013
- Insights from work tracking unplanned hospital admissions and A&E attendances for social prescribing, the impact of social prescribing on community mental health patients, how social prescribing responded during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the role of small VCS providers within social prescribing services
- Critical reflections on the social prescribing evidence and suggest some new directions for future research and evaluation in this field
Chris Dayson, Associate Professor, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Theme Lead, Healthy and Active 100, and Associate Fellow, Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre, University of Sheffield
12:15pm
Integrating a Person's Voice into Social Prescribing Provision, Evaluation and Audit
- Understanding the development of tools that capture a person's concerns and why this adds a different dimension to data capture compared to standardised outcome measures
- How to utilise service users concerns to audit and evaluate existing service provision, to strategically develop services and create foundations for capturing the full impact of service provision
- The ethics and burdens of capturing data in social prescribing services - is less more?
- Future developments in understanding a person's concerns at a global scale
Dr Marie Polley, Co-Founder and Co-Chair, Social Prescribing Network; Co-Founder and Co-Director, Meaningful Measures Ltd, Visiting Reader, Institute of Connected Communities, UEL
12:35pm
Questions and Answers Sessions
12:55pm
Lunch and Networking Break
1:40pm
Social Prescribing at Scale – The Ways to Wellness Model
Sandra Mitchell-Phillips, Chief Executive, Ways to Wellness
2:00pm
The Blue Ocean for Pharmacy Social Prescribing
- Discussing the synergy with the Healthy Living Pharmacy (HLP) framework
- Analysing the Community Pharmacy services as touchpoints for socially isolated patients
- Insights on current and upcoming International Pharmacy pilots
- Exploring the evolution of the community pharmacist role
Arun Nadarasa, Founder, Social Prescribing Pharmacy Association
2:20pm
Closing Keynote by Steve Williams
- Considering how to sustain the benefits of social prescribing
- Examining the importance of community partnerships on wellbeing
- Looking at the programmes developed by OASIS Community Centre and Gardens
- Analysing the positive impacts and opportunities of social prescribing projects
Steve Williams, Project Manager, OASIS Projects
2:40pm
Questions and Answers Session
3:00pm
Chairs Summary and Close