Approaches to Community Led Prevention in Secondary Care
Social prescribing, along with other community-based interventions, aims to tackle the wider determinants of health and can help to reduce inequalities.
Although social prescribing is more commonly embedded in primary care, there are many examples in secondary care settings having a significant impact.
Enabling prevention in secondary care ensures that needs are addressed at every stage in a patients journey. A whole-system approach to prevention will be a key enabler of developing Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs).
The two documents on this page have been developed to support the embedding of prevention in secondary care and to make the case for a whole-system approach to prevention.
Containing practical guidance, tools and detailed case studies, these documents can also support with planning strategies and developing integrated partnerships, as well as offering valuable insights to help drive forward impactful change.
Embedding and connecting prevention in specialist pathways
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This toolkit, which has been developed in collaboration with Barts Health NHS Trust, provides detailed guidance on how to embed prevention in secondary care specialist or acute pathways, as well as how to explore whole-system approaches to prevention in NHS Trusts across London.
It includes detailed case studies of innovative projects at Barts Health NHS Trust which focus on prevention.
Read more and access the toolkit here.
Embedding Community Led Prevention in Secondary Care: Using a proactive and personalised care approach to address health inequalities and deliver population health
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This summary slide-pack has been designed to support ICBs in integrating community led prevention and social prescribing into their strategy planning for secondary care services.
It includes a detailed look at policy context and drivers, impact and evidence, case study examples and funding models. It also looks at common challenges and enablers as well as next steps for ICBs.
Read more and view the slide-pack here.
Contact us
If you have any questions about how to use either of these documents, you can contact us here.
If your question is about the local impact of social prescribing and other community-led approaches to prevention, we’d recommend contacting your local ICB or Trust.