Green Social Prescribing
Surrey Heartlands is one of seven national 'test and learn' sites for green social prescribing. We want the support of our local community to help us test what a successful green social prescribing programme could look like in Surrey.
About the project
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There has been an increased public awareness of the benefits of regular access to green spaces and studies have shown that this has the potential to improve mental health and wellbeing. In Surrey, we want to build on this potential to test how we can embed green social prescribing into communities to:
- Improve mental health
- Reduce health inequalities
- Reduce demand on the health and social care system
- Develop best practice in making green social activities more resilient and accessible
Find out more about Green Social Prescribing by watching this video.
Evidence tells us that mental health in some communities of Surrey was impacted more so than other communities as a result of the CoVid-19 pandemic. This project will first focus on these disproportionately impacted communities. We can then use our learning from this experience to scale up green social prescribing to a wider community audience in the future.
Please see below for ways you might be able to get involved to help test and design what green social prescribing looks like in Surrey.
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Trusted Provider Status for nature-based health and wellbeing providers in Surrey
We would love to hear your thoughts and feedback on this first draft of a 'Trusted Provider Status' for green health and wellbeing providers in Surrey.
As nature for health and Green Social Prescribing develops across Surrey, and more providers emerge, we are keen to support the quality of such provisions in our community, such that they are services that Health Care Professionals would be confident to make a referral, or signpost to.
One approach to this is developing a ‘trusted provider status’, where providers can self-assess their service against a set of criteria to demonstrate their quality and commitment to nature-based approaches to health and wellbeing. A first draft of this criteria has been developed and we would now like to share this for thoughts and feedback from health, social care, and green sector professionals in Surrey.
Increasing Nature connection for North Guildford Residents
Tell us how access to nature can be improved in your neighbourhood
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Timeline
Network and foundation building
Community engagement and design
Green Social Prescribing solutions
Evaluation
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What have we been up to so far, in 2022?
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Thanks for checking out our first blog post! We’re going to be using these blog posts to keep our community up to date with the latest news on the project. So if you haven't already, please rememb
Meet the team
Surrey County Council is the elected body that is responsible for services such as education, transport, social care and waste management in Surrey. On behalf of Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership they have agreed to test how Green Social Prescribing can be embedded in mental healthcare within Surrey.
Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership is an ‘Integrated Care System’. This is a partnership where health organisations, local authorities and other partners take a collective responsibility for improving the health of the local population, managing resources (including money) and making sure services are high quality.
Read Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership privacy policy
Timeline
Network and foundation building
Community engagement and design
Green Social Prescribing solutions
Evaluation
News
What have we been up to so far, in 2022?
Hello, and Happy New Year to everyone! We've been really busy so far in 2022 so we wanted to take a moment to give you an update on what we've been doing!Supporting green ideasThroughout Janua
Hello!
Thanks for checking out our first blog post! We’re going to be using these blog posts to keep our community up to date with the latest news on the project. So if you haven't already, please rememb
Proposals
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Trusted Provider Status for nature-based health and wellbeing providers in Surrey
We would love to hear your thoughts and feedback on this first draft of a 'Trusted Provider Status' for green health and wellbeing providers in Surrey.
As nature for health and Green Social Prescribing develops across Surrey, and more providers emerge, we are keen to support the quality of such provisions in our community, such that they are services that Health Care Professionals would be confident to make a referral, or signpost to.
One approach to this is developing a ‘trusted provider status’, where providers can self-assess their service against a set of criteria to demonstrate their quality and commitment to nature-based approaches to health and wellbeing. A first draft of this criteria has been developed and we would now like to share this for thoughts and feedback from health, social care, and green sector professionals in Surrey.
Increasing Nature connection for North Guildford Residents
Tell us how access to nature can be improved in your neighbourhood
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Mental health and wellbeing
This survey is aimed at understanding the factors that affect mental health amongst people with lived experience of mental health concern, and how nature could be used to address these.
Carers and mental health
The purpose of this survey is to better understand the factors that influence the mental health of carers.
Dementia and Mental Health
This survey aims to better understand the factors that affect mental health amongst people living with dementia.
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Team
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Surrey County Council is the elected body that is responsible for services such as education, transport, social care and waste management in Surrey. On behalf of Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership they have agreed to test how Green Social Prescribing can be embedded in mental healthcare within Surrey.
Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership is an ‘Integrated Care System’. This is a partnership where health organisations, local authorities and other partners take a collective responsibility for improving the health of the local population, managing resources (including money) and making sure services are high quality.
Read Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership privacy policy