£270k funds for social prescribing scheme in Guernsey
'Increasing demand on health services'
According to the BSP, 61% of people who used the scheme had fewer GP appointments in the following year.The project also offers help with issues such as housing, financial worries and bereavement.The new funding will mean the scheme can recruit an extra link worker.Dr Simon Sebire, the Health Improvement Commission chief executive, said: "Social prescribing recognises the importance of the social causes of our health and the valuable contribution that non-medical community-based activities and support can make to improving personal, social and community well-being, and the challenges the Bailiwick faces in terms of an ageing population and increasing demand on health services."Deputy Marc Leadbeater, vice-president of the Committee for Health and Social Care, said the partnership with the charitable sector "is helping transform how we manage health and wellbeing from a focus on ill health to a wider consideration of what constitutes better health for islanders".
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