Picture a person searching for well-being support. Maybe they are lonely or at a loose end, bereaved or new in an area or in a country. Maybe they’re ill, anxious or depressed. Imagine this person hears about different well-being support where they are, maybe through a social prescriber. Picture them turning up at a drop in atContinue reading “Best Practice”
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Health Check
With the NHS turning 75 – a milestone that has set the UK talking once again about the merits of this national institution – it’s as good a time as any to think about how the arts and healthcare overlap, and how they might overlap yet more. The NHS is struggling – still fighting backContinue reading “Health Check”
On Prescription
Now that social prescribing has become a familiar term, it is easy to forget that just a few years ago prescribing was still all about medicine and pharmacies. Maybe more than anything else, social prescribing embodies a gradual move to more preventative healthcare and healthcare going beyond the immediate and beyond the physical. When socialContinue reading “On Prescription”
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