Social Prescribing Survey
Dear VCSE Sector colleague,
You may have heard about social prescribing. This initiative is supported and funded by NHS England to enable Link Workers to be recruited to work with GP Practice patients who may need support to help them with the various ‘social’ issues that may affect their health and wellbeing. This could be anything from someone needing information and advice on debt issues to how to engage with social activities so that they are more connected and not lonely and isolated. There is more information here: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/social-prescribing 

Link Workers are sometimes known by other titles, such as ‘Community Navigators’, but essentially, they perform the same role. We have social prescribing services and Link Workers across Oxfordshire GP Practices that are already helping many patients, and working together with our partners, we are producing a strategy to ensure that social prescribing is fit for purpose and sustainable into the future.

As a voluntary sector organisation that may have supported some of those patients (or may do so in the future) we would like to ask if you would kindly complete our brief survey to help with the strategy. This can be done anonymously, or you may add your organisation or group name if you wish. It would help us if you could indicate which area of the county that you work in and cover and also what age group of people generally access your service.

This survey will go out widely via OCVA and also Healthwatch Oxfordshire. The survey results will be returned to Maggie James at NHS Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group, who is drafting the social prescribing strategy. Any answers and comments will be kept anonymous in the strategy where this has been requested. Once the final draft of the strategy has been written and approved, all surveys will be deleted/ destroyed

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1. Were you already aware that when people have been referred to your organisation/ group for support (not just signposted), that it may have been through social prescribing? *
2. Have you already received referrals from social prescribing Link Workers for people to access your service? *
2a. If you answered ‘yes’ to Q2, how many referrals have you received to date or how often do you receive referrals? Please provide an approximate number or approximate frequency. (If your organisation/ group hasn’t received any social prescribing link worker referrals and you would like to know how to be involved in this service, please contact Maggie James via maggie.james2@nhs.net or telephone on 07769 307054).
3. If you answered ‘yes’ to Q2, are you aware of the broad reason(s) that people were referred for? E.g. because they were lonely; needed advice etc *
3a. If you answered ‘yes’ or ‘for some people’ to Q3, was your organisation/ group able to help them?
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3b. If you answered ‘yes’ or ‘for some people’ to Q3, were there any challenges for your organisation/ group in being able to support people referred? E.g. their needs were more complex; they also needed other services to help
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3c. If you answered yes to the previous question, please outline what challenges there were for your organisation.
4. Is your organisation/ group happy to receive referrals for social prescribing (or to continue to receive them)? *
4a. If you answered ‘no’ or ‘possibly’ to Q4, please explain the reasons for your inability or hesitance to receive referrals. (You can choose more than one option)
4b. If you ticked other reasons in the previous question, please give brief details for your inability or hesitance to receive referrals.
4c. If you completed any part of Q4a, what support would your organisation/ group need to be able to take social prescribing Link Worker referrals? (You can choose more than one option).
4d. If you ticked 'other' in the previous question Please provide details of what support would your organisation/ group need to be able to take social prescribing Link Worker referrals?
5. If your organisation/ group is happy to receive referrals, what would you want social prescribing Link Workers to know about your organisation/ group and its services so that they can promote it to people? Please provide brief details.
6. What type of services does your organisation/ group provide? Please tick all that apply. *
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6a. If you ticked 'help with other lifestyle support' or 'other' in the previous question, please give brief details of the services your organisation/group provides here.
7. Is your organisation/ group listed on the Live Well Oxfordshire web site? Live Well Oxfordshire is an Oxfordshire County Council validated web site that Link Workers, and other people, use to identify services and activities that can help and support people. Organisations can request their details and services to be included via this link: https://livewell.oxfordshire.gov.uk/Information/Suggestaservice  *
8. Please let us know any other comments that you wish to make
9. What is the age group of people who regularly use your services (You can tick more than 1 option) *
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10. Which area of the county do you work in? (you can tick more than 1 option) *
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