What is Social Prescribing?
Social prescribing recognises that health is heavily determined by social factors such as poverty, isolation and loneliness.
Social prescribing offers GPs and other health professionals a means of referring people to a range of non-clinical community supports which can have significant benefits for their overall health and wellbeing.
Social Prescribing has a number of key components:
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A referral from any healthcare professional/other professional or self-referral into the service
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an intervention between the service user and a social prescribing link worker. The intervention can take up to eight sessions
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Supporting the service user to access local voluntary community and social enterprise organisations or services through discussion and joint decision
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making measuring the impact of the social prescribing on the person, the wider community and the health service.
Here are the contacts in Cork city & County
Adrigole Family Resource Centre
The Caha Centre
Adrigole
Beara, Co.Cork
IRL – P75 EK72
Tel: 083 149 1543
Email: linkworker@thecahacentrefrc.ie
Website: www.thewellbeingnetwork.ie/social-prescribing/adrigole/
Ballincollig Family Resource Centre
The Village Shopping Centre
Station Rd. Ballincollig
Co. Cork IRL – P31 AE86
Tel: 085 87 93462
Email: linkworker@ballincolligfrc.org
Website: https://www.ballincolligfrc.org
Ballyphehane and Togher Community Development Project
Lower Friars Walk,
Ballyphehane, Co. Cork
IRL – T12 TH68
Tel: 08712 07410
Email: sineadm@btcdp.ie
Opening Times: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (Mon to Fri)
Cork North West Social Prescribing
Le Cheile Family Resource Centre
Mallow Community Campus Fair Street
Mallow Co. Cork
IRL – P51 F344
Tel: 8771 93257
Email: linkworker@lecheilefrc.ie
Website: www.thewellbeingnetwork.ie/community-referral/mallow/
Dunmanway Family Resource Centre CLG
Kilbarry Road
Dunmanway, Co. Cork
IRL – P47 EC43
Tel: 083-2040729
Email: wendy@dfrc.ie
Website: www.dfrc.ie
Midleton Family Resource Centre
Oakwood Lodge
Old Youghal Road, Midleton Co Cork
IRL – P25 WP38
Tel: 083 149 1543
Email: linkworker@midletonfrc.com
Website: www.midletonfrc.com/
Niche Community Health Project
HSE Building
Harbour View Road, Knocknaheeny
Cork City, Co Cork
IRL – T23 XY16
Tel: 086 014 7504
Email: socialprescribing@nicheonline.ie
Website: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=niche
Opening Times: 8.30 am – 16.00 pm ( Mon – Fri )