About this event
A monthly, pan London session covering a knotty issue that social prescribers are tackling, focusing this time on “supporting migrant communities and people with refugee status”.
What social prescribing approaches exist in the UK for migrant populations? Do they improve migrants’ health and wellbeing? What should we be doing to facilitate successful social prescribing for migrants, and how can we better measure the outcomes?
- Public Health England conducted a recent evidence review of social prescribing approaches and outcomes for migrant populations in the UK.
- Findings from the evidence review were used to create a new social prescribing page for the Migrant Health Guide on GOV.UK, which contains recommendations for social prescribing link workers, commissioners, service managers, service evaluators and researchers.
- Alongside this, the Greater London Authority commissioned Doctors of the World UK to produce a toolkit for link workers to assist migrants to access healthcare.
Join this webinar to participate in the launch of the Migrant Health Guide social prescribing page. You’ll also learn about the findings of Public Health England’s evidence review, hear about social prescribing link workers’ experiences working with vulnerable migrant groups, and find out more about resources that can support your work with migrants.
Open to all SPLWs & managers, expect your peers to be presenting on best practice (this section will be recorded), discussion and problem solving.
More details to follow!
Please get in touch directly if you have ideas for future sessions: lianna.martin@nhs.net & justyna.s@bbbc.org.uk