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.
This work has been funded through the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance, jointly managed and funded by Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and UK Health Security Agency. For more information, please visit:
NHS England » Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Health and Wellbeing Alliance
Report: Building Bridges - Social Prescribing with people with learning disabilities and autistic people
What link workers and social prescribing services can do
What people and their supporters can do
What community groups can do
What commissioners and funders can do
What GPs can do
