Our Personalised Care Team deliver a number of projects, often developed with a range of stakeholders of the social prescribing system across London, as a result of insights into challenges from those working on the frontline.  All aim to support the long-term, sustainable development of Social Prescribing, and the embedding of the three personalised care roles in London’s health system.   

Jump to project:

1. Patient Voices for Social Prescribing
2. Social Prescribing Innovators Programme launched September 2022
3. London Social Prescribing Map
4. London Social Prescribing Advocates Programme
5. Community Chests for Social Prescribing
6. Social Welfare Legal Advice and Social Prescribing

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Patient Voices for Social Prescribing

A Patient Voices programme provides a safe space, support and a platform for individuals with lived experience of social prescribing, who want to share their experiences through storytelling and help improve services.

Read more about the programme and submit an Expression of Interest to share ideas for working with ‘patient voices’.

Social Prescribing Innovators Programme

The Social Prescribing Innovators Programme supports people on the frontline of social prescribing in London to overcome challenges and improve services’ ability to tackle health inequalities, through developing leadership skills, quality improvement and testing new ways of working.

12 projects from across London formed the first cohort of Social Prescribing (SP) Innovators

The participants received six months of Quality Improvement training, coaching and support, as well as a share of £120,000 in funding to find innovative solutions to local challenges to social prescribing services. 

Explore the programme and read more about the projects involved in the pilot here.

Find out about our Innovators Toolkit, sharing the learnings from the pilot, and information on how to apply a similar approach in your area here.

Read more information about the programme and projects:

• Social Prescribing Innovators Programme Brochure
• Social Prescribing Innovators Programme Projects
• Overview of Social Prescribing Innovators Programme

London Social Prescribing Map

• The opportunity: There is value in understanding how others are approaching the delivery of social prescribing across London, and crucial for an active network to have a facility to connect with each other.
• The solution: Transformation Partners in Health and Care (TPHC) will create, host and manage an online tool, in the form of a map, publishing local service models sharing how social prescribing is being delivered across London, as well as key SP contacts to enable a more active network and organic good practice sharing across London.
  • See the map

London Social Prescribing Advocates Programme   

• The opportunity:  Social Prescribing is relatively new to most parts of the NHS, and as investment grows year on year, so does the workforce, the system designed to embed and develop SP as well as the maturity of the work.  SPLWs bring with them a rich breadth of skills and experience, and it is crucial there are facilities to ensure they are shaping this investment, development and support to ensure social prescribing is meaningful and thrives, and their insights are valued and heard.   
• The solution: A community of SPLWs, that meet once a month to develop their skills as advocates of social prescribing and have an opportunity to shape pan London work related to the development and support of social prescribing. 

Community Chests for Social Prescribing 

Community chests are accessible and local funding pots for the voluntary and community sector to support local activities. They’re rooted in a collaborative, needs-led approach to funding that taps into the strengths and insights of a wide range of partners from across the local community.

Read more about our community chest model here.

Social Welfare Legal Advice and Social Prescribing 

• The challenge: With finite investment in social welfare legal advice provision, there is a huge disparity in numbers of people needing support and receiving it.  Many PCNs operating in areas of particular deprivation, see the opportunity to upskill SPLWs in this arena of great value to the patients they are supporting. 
• The solution:  As part of it’s Recovery Programme, the GLA are funding TPHC and Bromley by Bow to deliver social welfare legal advice training for SPLWs across London, a series of events connecting SPLWs to pan London organisations and Robust Safety Net projects (also GLA funded) that can support their work with patients. There will also be funding and support for 5 sites to host a hybrid SWLA/ SPLW role.