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.
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As part of the NHSX Covid-19 response, a national video library has been launched in collaboration with healthcare video provider, Health and Care Innovations.
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Take on the reading challenge and read all 24 winners. Join the digital bookclub at #ReadingWomen to share your thoughts.
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A Cochrane systematic review has found that, when it comes to antibody testing for covid-19, timing is everything.
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Read this week’s library bulletin on Dementia here
This update covers education and training actions
The digital era has revolutionised the second half of the 20th century. Medicine has not been spared. It was not long ago that a Palm Pilot with access to Epocrates was the greatest technology. This evolved to the first smartphones, such as the giant Blackberry with tiny letter keys, followed by the touchscreen smartphone. Now we can call, text, e‐mail, page and research any question, even through voice command, in a matter of seconds from one device. With this, medicine has evolved to embrace an electronic medical record, digital operating room schedules, computerised foreign‐language interpreters, and digital prescribing of controlled substances.
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