Making Every Contact Count+
Supporting Care Navigation
To tie in with our work on social prescribing, the MECC+ Supporting Care Navigation workshop is for staff and volunteers working in health, social care or community settings.
It provides an opportunity to consider the wider determinants of ill-health and the factors affecting people’s physical and mental wellbeing such as housing, money, relationships, lifestyle choices and confidence.
The workshop looks at how care navigation and linking with local community-based activities can enable people to make positive changes that improve their own health and wellbeing.
Contact us to book one of these interactive sessions for your team.
Latest Social Prescribing News
LCVS support local vaccination hubs
Social Prescribing works closely with Primary Care, when our local Primary Care Networks began to think about the enormous task of vaccinating thousands of people we began to think about how we could best support. With many different communities across the area we...
Tracey’s Story – Social Prescribing
LCVS has been working with Tracy following a brain haemorrhage. This video highlights the importance social prescribing can have on a person, as she tells her story now that she has been able to take up knitting, following her hard work and the care that the team and...
NHS England showcases social prescribing in Lincolnshire
NHS England has produced an 18-minute podcast exploring the value of joined-up working between the health system and voluntary sector on social prescribing in Lincolnshire. The focus is on the Gainsborough pilot area. LCVS and VCS are working together with health...
Join the conversation to help those who need support
Community groups and businesses are being invited to get involved in a conversation about how everyone can work together to help those who need support. Integrated Neighbourhood Working in Stamford is already having a massive impact by empowering people to overcome...
Social Prescribing: Helping to connect people and increase wellbeing
The social prescribing team are now all in place across South, South West and East Lincolnshire. We have one goal, to connect people with activities in their own community so that their sense of belonging and wellbeing is increased. Our values are simple, our service...
Could you help people who are feeling lonely?
Could you help someone who is feeling lonely by helping them to try new things and make new friends? A new scheme is being piloted in Stamford to train volunteers to mentor those who are struggling with isolation by accompanying them to social activities so they don’t...
What people are saying…
“Since you’ve been visiting mum I never know where she is, she’s always out. She never used to go out at all” a participants son talking to a Link Worker.
Get involved in social prescribing
The social prescribing team are developing volunteer roles, recruitment will begin soon.
Volunteer mentors will be trained to accompany social prescribing participants to new activities.
Volunteer researchers will be out and about in the community looking for new group and activities that may benefit social prescribing participants.
Get in touch
If you still have unanswered questions about social prescribing, please use the form below to get in touch, or call the team in your area.