NASP Webinar: Improving Access to Social Prescribing through Care Navigation and Online Consultations
Wed, 16 Aug
|Webinar
This webinar will explore different approaches to improve access to additional roles through care navigation & online consultations. We will explore how these principles could be adapted for future use in general practice to improve access to additional roles, such as social prescribing link workers
Time & Location
16 Aug 2023, 09:30 – 11:00
Webinar
About the Event
An increasing population in the UK combined with the decline in the number of GPs has – in some cases - resulted in overwhelmed GP surgeries, relied on for more than just healthcare. A report by Citizens Advice suggested that almost a fifth of GP appointment time is used for primarily social rather than medical problems.
Social prescribing helps reduce pressure on health and care services by supporting access to community based non-clinical services. However, many of these patients need to see a GP first, which uses up a clinical appointment for a non-medical need and requires two appointments for the patient, not one.
This webinar will explore different approaches to improve access to additional roles through care navigation and online consultations. We will explore how these principles could be adapted for future use in general practice to improve access to additional roles, such as social prescribing link workers. This builds on existing work of a first contact practitioner (FCP) case study.
Join NASP’s Thriving Communities regional Lead for Yorkshire & Humber, David Cowan, and a range of speakers from general practice in northeast and Yorkshire and from around the UK.
Speakers include:
Tracy Burton, Practice Manager from Newsome Surgery Huddersfield and Business Consultant
Matt Taylor, Managing Director, Sano Physiotherapy Ltd
Rebecca Scott, Social Prescribing Link Worker, York Rd PCN
Robyne Orton, Senior Social Prescribing Link Worker, Hartlepool PCN
This webinar will help you to:
- Understand the policy context in relation to social prescribing services.
- Learn about how care navigation and triage principles could be used to improve access to social prescribing link workers, saving GP appointment for those who have clinical needs.
- Hear from social prescribing link workers, a practice managers and first contact practitioners on their approaches to improving access to their services
Signpost to evidence based quality improvement resources for general practice NHSfutures;
https://future.nhs.uk/PrimaryCareImprovementCONNECT/view?objectID=40169072
This session will be particularly useful for:
- GPs, practice or PCN business managers and reception patient assistants or care navigators
- Social Prescribing Link Workers
- NHS, government and arms-length body staff
- Anyone hosting in the social enterprise sector with an interest in social prescribing
For more information, please follow the link below to the ‘Can care navigation help us improve access to social prescribing?’ blog by David Cowan, Regional Lead for Northeast and Yorkshire.
Please register for the webinar with the link below