Social prescribing helps you to explore extra services that may support you to improve your health, wellbeing and independence.
Do you have issues with; isolation, loneliness, money, family, health, depression, addiction, benefits, wellbeing, anxiety, housing, worries, smoking, drugs, alcohol or unemployment?
Contact the team on:
Social prescribers: 0300 303 5291
Wellbeing Coaching: 01905 27525
How Does It Work?
A member of your GP practice team may suggest a referral to the Social Prescribing service. One of our Social Prescribers will contact you to find out what you are interested in, tell you about what activities and services are available locally and help you to access them.
ONSIDE provides the Social Prescribing Service for the Bromsgrove Primary Care Network. Their website provide has a self referral form that you can complete.
Together you will be able to:
- Explore what is important for your wellbeing.
- Identify the local activities and services you can benefit from.
- Gain support and encouragement to start using services that can help you.
The social prescriber is:
- Someone to 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, wellbeing and independence.
- Someone who can find you activities that will suit you.
- Someone who can give you support along the way.
Social prescribing can link you with many services in your community to help. These may 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.
As a Bromsgrove patient, you may self-refer to the Social Prescribing service by telephone: 0300 303 5291 or alternatively, speak to St Johns Surgery.
Following your contact or a Surgery referral, a local Social Prescriber will make contact with you with a view to helping to improve your health, well-being and independence. They will explore activities and services with you that you may benefit from.
