Building Bridges: Social prescribing with people with learning disabilities and autistic people

As part of the work of the Health and Wellbeing Alliance, this small research project gathered the experiences of people with learning disabilities and autistic people who had experienced social prescribing and those working as social prescribers or link workers. We have found a breadth and depth of ways that social prescribing can benefit people and their local communities.

Social prescribing has the potential to reduce health inequalities and build social capital by connecting people to community groups, and support services in their area, to help with both mental and physical wellbeing.