Measuring the economic impact of the wellspring healthy living centre's social prescribing wellbeing programme for low level mental health issues encountered by GP services

Kimberlee, Richard; Jones, Matthew; Powell, Jane

Abstract

This research evaluates the impacts of a holistic social prescribing Wellbeing Programme delivered by the Wellspring Healthy Living Centre, Bristol. As a holistic social prescribing approach it is representative of many third sector led interventions seeking to support local primary care services. It offers GP-referred patients 12 weeks of one-to-one support followed by 12 months of group support around a particular activity. Socio-economic impact was measured through Social Return On Investment (SROI) approach using a pre and post intervention interviews using the Wellspring Wellbeing Questionnaire tool (WWQ). Data collected using the WWQ suggests that three months after a beneficiary’s induction on the intervention beneficiaries show statistically significant improvement in: PHQ9 (p=

• Report Type: Project Report
• Publication Date: Nov 1, 2013
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 7, 2019
• Journal: Proving our Value
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: wellbeing, mental health issues, GP services
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/926277
• Publisher URL: http://southwestforum.org.uk/sites/default/files/sitefiles/docs/swfprovingourvalue_uwe_wellspring.pdf
• Related Public URLs: http://southwestforum.org.uk/provingourvalue
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