Liverpool Social Health Model: Enhanced Social Prescribing Services

The main objectives of setting up a Social Model of Health Services contract is as follows:  Provide a social welfare offer which is fully integrated into primary care and social prescribing services  Provide a blended social welfare and wellbeing offer for patients from mental health, pathway 0, perinatal, cancer, respiratory, urgent care services  Improve well-being, quality of life, social inclusion, community connectedness  Promote economic wellbeing and economic resilience  Support redistribution of demand for primary care, acute and social care services for better preventative health outcomes  Reduce duplication and fragmentation across social prescribing and well-being services in Liverpool  Contribute to the outcomes and evidence-base for social prescribing  Promote self-care  Promote the five ways to wellbeing  Provide advice clinics in health and community settings for patients  Support individuals to identify and access appropriate activities, assets, information and advice, develop and improve social connections  Help build health and wellbeing capacity in communities  Develop and strengthen effective partnerships and pathways  Appropriately support the service user to achieve their personal objectives  Collate, analyse and report to Commissioners on model impact