Social Prescribing & Community Support Network Building a better co-ordinated and seamless approach across ESSEX Krishna Ramkhelawon 7th February 2017

Our Principles

Community mobilisation, patient/user activation and self-care AIMS: To prevent ill-health and promote healthier lifestyle choices To develop strategies for spontaneous and sustained community mobilisation To promote self-help and reduce demand on public services To foster resilience at personal and community level and build on volunteering

What we now have

Where we need to be

What we need to address Improved collaboration between partners Reduce complexity for users Enabling self-referral and cross-agency referrals Better alignment of schemes Joint information management flow Adopt a similar approach across Essex with joint training between teams Improved marketing for residents and communication between agencies