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Joining the dots: assessing the roll out of social prescribing link workers in primary care

Paul Wilson headshot By Paul Wilson Filed Under: Health and Care, Health and Social Care Posted: March 14, 2024

Social prescribing is the referral of patients to non-clinical treatments – often for mental health needs and long-term health conditions. In 2019, the NHS Long Term Plan embedded the role of link workers to coordinate and refer patients from Primary Care Networks. But are the right areas getting the support they need – and how […]

Tagged With: ARC-GM, Health & Social Care, Health inequalities, inequalities, local government, loneliness, mental health, NHS, Racial Inequalities, SHS

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Opportunities to improve the management of wound care in the NHS

Paul Wilson headshot By Paul Wilson Filed Under: Health and Social Care Posted: August 16, 2018

The management and care of wounds is a complex aspect of our healthcare system, with implications for primary, secondary, and community care, as well as having a significant impact on both expenditures and outcomes. Here, Paul Wilson of the  NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care Greater Manchester (CLARHRC GM) introduces the issue […]

Tagged With: care quality, community care, dressing, Health & Social Care, NHS, wound care

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Can lunch clubs save the NHS?

Paul Wilson headshot By Paul Wilson Filed Under: Featured Posted: June 2, 2015

Social prescriptions have been hailed as a wonderful way of improving health outcomes, at low cost. But Paul Wilson argues that we need less rhetoric and more sound research to evaluate project results. The Queen’s Speech has seen the new government reconfirm commitments to make an extra £8bn of funding available to the NHS. But […]

Tagged With: CCGs, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Five Year Forward View, gyms, health, Health Select Committee, jeremy hunt, lunch clubs, NHS, NHS England, social prescriptions

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