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

2. Our Principles

4. 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

6. What we now have

7. Where we need to be

8. 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