Health Information Week

Health Information Week is a national, multi-sector campaign promoting high-quality information for patients and the public.

High quality health information can have a huge impact on people’s ability to stay healthy and manage illnesses effectively, giving them a better quality of life. We all need information that we can trust, particularly in this time of coronavirus. We also need to look after our wellbeing, whether our mental health or our physical health. In response to these needs, Health Information Week 2020 runs from 6th to 12th July and focuses on the themes of:

• Finding information you can trust

• Wellbeing

During next week the library will be promoting both themes via the library blog and in the Gosall Library. 

Read more here

Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services – Briefing

Evaluating Social Prescribing

This briefing provides a review of the research methods and approaches used to evaluate UK-based social prescribing interventions in recent years, to inform health care and social services professionals, as well as organisations delivering social prescribing interventions and those conducting evaluations of them. It aims to give an overview of how social prescribing has been evaluated, and what can be learned from this.