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Australian link worker social prescribing programs: An integrative review [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Link worker social prescribing programs are gaining recognition in Australia for addressing health and social needs outside routine medical care. The evaluation of these programs is essential for informing future social prescribing programs, research and
James R. Baker, Michelle Bissett, Rosanne Freak-Poli, Genevieve A. Dingle, Yvonne Zurynski, Thomas Astell-Burt, Eric Brymer, Tina Prassos, Tamsin Thomas, Cassandra Tognarini, Christina Aggar   +10 more
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Patterns and predictors of outcome monitoring amongst link workers: Learnings from the National Social Prescribing Link Worker Survey 2025. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
BackgroundEffective outcome monitoring by Social Prescribing Link Workers (SPLWs) is critical for understanding the impact of social prescribing (SP) interventions.
Daisy Fancourt, Feifei Bu
doaj   +4 more sources

Teleworking: The Link between Worker, Family and Company

Systems, 2022
Telework is presented as a model of work organisation that changes the paradigms of business culture in many organisations, reshaping established management and social systems.
Juan Herrera, Carlos De las Heras-Rosas, Mercedes Rodríguez-Fernández, Antonio Manuel Ciruela-Lorenzo   +3 more
doaj   +7 more sources

Service-users’ perspectives of link worker social prescribing: a qualitative follow-up study [PDF]

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Social prescribing enables health-care professionals to address non-medical causes of ill-health by harnessing the resources of the voluntary and community sectors in patient care.
Josephine M. Wildman, Suzanne Moffatt, Mel Steer, Kirsty Laing, Linda Penn, Nicola O’Brien   +5 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Link Worker social prescribing to improve health and well-being for people with long-term conditions: qualitative study of service user perceptions [PDF]

BMJ Open, 2017
Objectives To describe the experiences of patients with long-term conditions who are referred to and engage with a Link Worker social prescribing programme and identify the impact of the Link Worker programme on health and well-being.
Mel Steer, Suzanne Moffatt, Linda Penn   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Implementing a General Practice-Based Link Worker Intervention for People with Multimorbidity During the Covid-19 Pandemic- a Mixed Methods Process Evaluation of the LinkMM RCT [PDF]

International Journal of Integrated Care
Background: Social prescribing link workers support patients to connect with community resources to improve their health and well-being. These roles are prominent in policy, but there is limited evidence on what support is provided by link workers and ...
Bridget Kiely, Ivana Keenan, Sonali Loomba, Natalie Mack, Vivienne Byers, Emer Galvin, Muireann O’Shea, Patrick O’Donnell, Fiona Boland, Barbara Clyne, Eamon O’Shea, Susan M. Smith, Deirdre Connolly   +12 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Worker wellbeing and productivity in advanced economies: Re-examining the link [PDF]

Ecological Economics, 2021
Labour productivity is a key concept for understanding the way modern economies use resources and features prominently in ecological economics. Ecological economists have questioned the desirability of labour productivity growth on both environmental and social grounds.
Simon Mair, Amy Isham, Tim Jackson
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Impact of the rollout of the national social prescribing link worker programme on population outcomes: evidence from a repeated cross-sectional survey. [PDF]

Br J Gen Pract
Background Social prescribing link workers have been rolled out nationally through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme. Link workers connect people to advice and support to address the non-medical and social issues affecting their health and ...
Wilding A, Agboraw E, Munford L, Sutton M, Mercer SW, Salisbury C, Beeson M, Wildman J, Wilson P.   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Does a social prescribing 'holistic' link-worker for older people with complex, multimorbidity improve well-being and frailty and reduce health and social care use and costs? A 12-month before-and-after evaluation. [PDF]

Prim Health Care Res Dev, 2019
Aim: To evaluate the impact of ‘holistic’ link-workers on service users’ well-being, activation and frailty, and their use of health and social care services and the associated costs.
Elston J, Gradinger F, Asthana S, Lilley-Woolnough C, Wroe S, Harman H, Byng R.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Intervention components of link worker social prescribing programmes: A scoping review

Health and Social Care in the Community, 2022
In the United Kingdom (UK), link worker social prescribing has emerged as an option to improve long-term condition management and address primary care patients' non-medical needs by linking patients with community-based activities and support.
S. Sandhu, Tyler Lian, Connor D Drake, S. Moffatt, J. Wildman, J. Wildman   +5 more
exaly   +2 more sources