At its most basic, a social prescription offers the kind of help that doesn’t come in a tube or bottle (non medical).
Instead, a social prescribing link worker creates your own social prescription to provide you with support, help and information that will enable you to access services or activities that will improve your health, wellbeing and overall enjoyment in life.
Social prescribing link workers can offer support and signposting for a variety of non-clinical interventions such as:
- people struggling to adapt or cope with chronic conditions that can’t be addressed by clinical consultation
- mental health and emotional wellbeing
- relationship difficulties
- domestic abuse
- loneliness and isolation
- low self esteem
- poor housing
- financial issues, including benefits
- carers
- bereavement
- health goals e.g. weight management, healthy eating, stop smoking, physical activity

Judith Centeno
Practice: Streatham Common Group Practice; The Exchange Surgery
Social Prescribing Link Worker