All links accessed on December 30 2024

1. D Nelson et al. ‘Social Prescribing and Health Inequalities in the Rural and Coastal County of Lincolnshire - A Report to NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board’. University of Lincoln. November 29th 2023. https://repository.lincoln.ac.uk/articles/report/Social_Prescribing_and_Health_Inequalities_in_the_Rural_and_Coastal_County_of_Lincolnshire_-_A_Report_to_NHS_Lincolnshire_Integrated_Care_Board/25583157?file=45582069

2. National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP). https://socialprescribingacademy.org.uk/

3. Healthwatch. ‘What is social prescribing?’. October 30 2023. https://www.healthwatch.co.uk/advice-and-information/2023-10-30/what-social-prescribing

4. NHS England. Universal personalised care: Implementing the Comprehensive Model. https://www.england.nhs.uk/personalisedcare/comprehensive-model/

5. C Muhl et al. ‘Establishing Internationally Accepted Conceptual and Operational Definitions of Social Prescribing Through Expert Consensus: A Delphi Study Protocol’. International Journal of Integrated Care. 2023 Jan 25;23(1):3.https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9881447/

6. World Health Organization. ‘A toolkit on how to implement social prescribing’. May 20 2022. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789290619765

7. NASP. What is Social Prescribing? https://socialprescribingacademy.org.uk/what-is-social-prescribing/

8. Social Prescribing Network. About. https://www.socialprescribingnetwork.com/about

9. A Pattison Rathbone et al. ‘“You don’t get side effects from social prescribing” — A qualitative study exploring community pharmacists’ attitudes to social prescribing’. PLOS One. 0301076. May 16 2024. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0301076

10. NHS England. All Our Health: Social Prescribing. https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/571333

11. Office for Health Improvement & Disparities. Social prescribing: applying All Our Health. Updated 27 January 2022. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-prescribing-applying-all-our-health/social-prescribing-applying-all-our-health

12. NHS England. Workforce, training and education. Person-centred care. https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/person-centred-care

13. NHS England. Social prescribing – frequently asked questions. https://www.england.nhs.uk/personalisedcare/social-prescribing/faqs/

14. Lincolnshire Voluntary Engagement Team CIC (LVET). Social prescribing. https://lvet.co.uk/social-prescribing/

15. NHS England. Social prescribing and community-based support: Summary guide. January 31 2019, page updated June 19 2020. https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/social-prescribing-and-community-based-support-summary-guide/

16. It’s All About People. Social prescribing and community-based support.  https://www.itsallaboutpeople.info/our-work/social-prescribing

17. Office for National Statistics. Measuring loneliness: guidance for use of the national indicators on surveys. Last revised December 5 2018. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/methodologies/measuringlonelinessguidanceforuseofthenationalindicatorsonsurveys

18. D Russell at al. ‘The Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale: Concurrent and Discriminant Validity Evidence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology’. 1980. 39;3:477-480. https://peplau.psych.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/141/2017/07/Russel-Peplau-Cutrona-80.pdf

19. NASP. Measuring outcomes for social prescribing. March 2022. https://socialprescribingacademy.org.uk/read-the-evidence/measuring-outcomes-for-social-prescribing/

20. NASP. Building the economic case for social prescribing. October 2023. https://socialprescribingacademy.org.uk/read-the-evidence/building-the-economic-case-for-social-prescribing/

21. NASP. The impact of social prescribing on health service use and costs. November 2024. https://socialprescribingacademy.org.uk/read-the-evidence/the-impact-of-social-prescribing-on-health-service-use-and-costs/

22. T Hussein et al. ‘Social prescribing in pharmacies: What is it, does it work and what does it mean for Canadian pharmacies?’. Canadian Pharmacists Journal / Revue des Pharmaciens du Canada. December 8 2023. 157;1. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17151635231216119

23. Department of Health & Social Care. Fingertips – Public health profiles. https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/