News • 02 Oct 2017

Social Prescribing in Wessex – an evaluation

This new report describes the eight different services providing social prescribing in Wessex - and our work to understand and evaluate the impact they are having, to support their development.

This evaluation paper introduces eight different services providing social prescribing in Wessex and describes our work to understand and evaluate the impact they are having, to support their development.
A mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods were used to evaluate these services, to develop a rounded and rich understanding of the impact that they are making.
They include:

  • R-Outcomes patient-reported outcome measures
  • Qualitative interviews and case studies
  • R-Outcomes staff reported outcome measures
  • Economic evaluation based on changes in A&E and Emergency IP stays.