Social Prescribing

Our Social Prescribing service will support you to improve your health and wellbeing. Social Prescribers will help you to develop personalised and practical solutions to everyday issues.

What is Social Prescribing?

There are times when we all need support to address life’s challenges. Knowing how to access available support locally can make a big difference. Social Prescribing helps you to explore services, groups and activities that can support you to improve your health and emotional wellbeing. Addressing difficult issues needs extra time and support.

Social prescribers can help by:

Giving you the time to explore and identify what is important for your health and wellbeing and the issues you’d like to address
Providing support and encouragement to connect to services, groups and activities that can help
They can speak with you on the phone or meet face-to-face (COVID restrictions allowing). And, they will work with you to create a personalised plan to help you to connect with services in your community.

Areas they can support you to connect with include:

Healthy lifestyles and active lives
Arts, music, outdoors and creativity
Befriending, counselling and other support groups
Housing, benefits and financial support and advice
Employment, training and volunteering
Education and learning
Getting involved in local groups and activities
Accessing specialist services and support

Social prescribers are:

Someone you can talk to confidentially
Someone who is practical, helpful and who will not judge you
Someone who can help you decide what you’d like to do to improve your health and wellbeing
Someone who can find you support and activities that will suit you
Someone who can give you support along the way

Am I Eligible?

The service is available to people living in Rural Rother PCN area, aged 16 and over, who are experiencing issues affecting their physical or mental health and wellbeing.