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In this blog, Stephanie Tierney considers GP usage as an outcome measure for social prescribing schemes.
At your discretion: Public and link worker reflections on our emerging findings
Link workers
In this blog, we reflect on a meeting with our patient-public involvement (PPI) group and link workers. At the meeting, we talked about and got those attending to reflect on some of the data we have collected for the research we are conducting on the implementation of link worker roles in primary care.
How we make sense of data
Link workers
In this blog, researcher Steven Markham describes how he and the wider link worker implementation study team are making sense of the vast amount of data produced from seven case studies.
Counting GP appointments when evaluating social prescribing: Does a reduction necessarily signal success?
Link workers
In this blog, Stephanie Tierney considers GP usage as an outcome measure for social prescribing schemes.
Exploring the role of green spaces in social prescribing: A knowledge exchange event
Link workers
Green social prescribing connects individuals to nature and open spaces to support their health and well-being. In this blog, Jordan Gorenberg reflects on a knowledge exchange event at the Harcourt Arboretum in Oxford, where green social prescribing offers are being developed. Jordan is currently involved in the link worker project, collecting data from patients about their experiences of social prescribing.
Who creates the interventions that social prescribing link workers refer to and what social programmes are appropriate for whom?
Link workers
In this blog, Steven Markham, research fellow at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford, reflects on experiences of designing health promotion interventions to inform current and future policy.
The Impact of COVID-19 on social prescribing link workers’ experiences in primary care – key messages from an evaluation in the southwest of England.
Link workers
In this blog, researcher, Debra Westlake, reflects on a previous evaluation she conducted between 2020 and 2021 with a team at the University of Plymouth, investigated the impact of COVID-19 on social prescribing in the southwest of England.
The Link Worker Project - Reflections from a PPI Contributor
Link workers
PPI contributor, Bernard, reflects on the role of link workers, having been involved in one of our core Social Prescribing projects, seeking to better understand implementation of link workers in primary care.
Street-level bureaucrats: Ideas from Lipsky applied to the role of social prescribing link workers
Link workers
In this blog, Stephanie Tierney, Senior Researcher and Departmental Lecturer, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford, shares details of the latest study that aims to explore and explain the link worker role in primary care, and highlights the concept of 'Street-Level Bureaucracy', proposed by Michael Lipsky to better understand this role.
Observing the social prescribing link worker role: reflections from the front line
Link workers
Researcher, Debra Westlake, reflects on the first stages of data collection from latest social prescribing study; exploring and comparing the roles of links workers at various GP surgeries throughout the UK, in sustaining outcomes in primary care.
Understanding the implementation of link workers in primary care: A realist evaluation to inform current and future policy
Link workers
A new study, led by CEBM members, Dr Stephanie Tierney and Associate Professor Kamal Mahtani, aims to understand the link worker role in primary care as part of social prescribing (in particular, to identify what works, for whom, why and in what circumstances). In this blog, the team shares details about this research, which has been funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).