Evidence for social prescribing 

Where you can find the latest evidence to support the impact of social prescribing. 

NASP evidence reviews 

The latest evidence for social prescribing slide deck by TPHC 

Building the case for social prescribing and prevention 

Resources to help you talk about the impact of social prescribing and build the case for investment. 

Conversation guide for social prescribing managers to sell the value of social prescribing by TPHC 

Podcast: How partnership working with people and communities results in better health outcomes/improved care  

Building the economic case for prevention – The Health Foundation recording

Toolkit – The Health Foundation sets out how to talk about the building blocks of health to tell a more powerful story that can inspire action and change. It is for anyone working and communicating in the field of public health and is intended to help change how the public understands health inequalities

Guidance for evaluating social prescribing 

Support for demonstrating the impact of local social prescribing services

Social Prescribing Evaluation Toolkit by TPHC 

Short walkthrough video on how to use the social prescribing evaluation toolkit (2 mins)

Guidance for the Social Prescribing Minimum dataset  

This NASP webinar gives a comprehensive introduction to evaluating a social prescribing service

The report by Marie Polley at National Academy of Social Prescribing outlines what successful social prescribing look like. It shows how to map meaningful outcomes  

A wealth of tools were created by The Inspiring Impact programme by NPC to support the community and voluntary sector to better collect, use and evaluate data  

Workshop for developing a theory of change and impact measurement  

Evaluation: what to consider – The Health Foundation

Guidance for measuring the impact of personalised care roles 

Support for measuring the impact of other personalised care roles

Guidance – Measuring impact of HWBCs: A new area on Future NHS providing guidance on this has been created

Case management systems 

Examples and information about case management systems for social prescribing

 Case studies of implementing Joy and other case management systems 

Elemental Proactive Social Prescribing demo recording

Dashboards and Data 

Places where you can access information about your local areas, health inequalities, demographics to support commissioning of services

Personalised Care Dashboard shows figures at a national, regional, ICB and PCN level. You can access the dashboard here on Future NHS

Primary Care Data hub  

PCN Dashboard – Primary Care Networks Development Support – Integrated Care (future.nhs.uk)  

Training session on how to use fingertips for general practice (19 mins)

Census interactive maps

Health Equity Assessment tool 

Academic research for social prescribing 

Scientific research on the impact of social prescribing

Reducing chronic stress to promote health in adults: the role of social prescriptions and social movements  

Precision social prescriptions to promote active ageing in older people  

Preparing for COVID-19’s aftermath: simple steps to address social determinants of health  

Digitally enabled social prescriptions: adaptive interventions to promote health in children and young people  

Resetting priorities in precision medicine: the role of social prescribing  

A social prescriptions formulary: bringing social prescribing on par with pharmaceutical prescribing  

Investing resources to address social factors affecting health: the essential role of social prescribing 

Academic research for health coaching 

Scientific research on the impact of health coaching

Does health coaching improve health‐related quality of life and reduce hospital admissions in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? A systematic review and meta‐analysis – Long – 2019 – British Journal of Health Psychology – Wiley Online Library  

Effect of telephone health coaching (Birmingham OwnHealth) on hospital use and associated costs: cohort study with matched controls | The BMJ  

Evaluating the Effect of a Diabetes Health Coach in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes – ScienceDirect 

Health changing conversations: clinicians’ experience of health coaching in the East of England (nih.gov)  

What Happens After Health Coaching? Observational Study 1 Year Following a Randomized Controlled Trial | Annals of Family Medicine (annfammed.org) 

Partnerships and coproduction 

Information about how we working with partners and collaborated to support the evidence and impact of social prescribing

Co-production of the Social Prescribing Evaluation Toolkit by TPHC 

Social Prescribing Evaluation Community of Practice by TPHC