Recommendation 12

We recommend DHSC work with NHS England and existing networks and providers to develop a national strategy for social prescribing. This should aim to improve understanding amongst frontline clinical practitioners of the benefits of social prescribing and to improve their confidence in offering social and community-based solutions to unmet social needs, and to increase use of social prescriptions for young people across all referral routes, including hospitals, schools and other educational and community settings. It should include resources, guidance and case studies, and should focus in particular on groups that are currently underserved, where the greatest long-term preventative impacts may be accrued. (Paragraph 48) Building healthy places for the future