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- Why are we doing this evaluation?
Why are we doing this evaluation?
The Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership has received funding to run a ‘test and learn’ site looking at Green Social Prescribing. The programme is being delivered by HEY Smile Foundation and is working across the six places of: North East Lincolnshire; North Lincolnshire; Hull; East Yorkshire; the Vale of York; and North Yorkshire.
Social prescribing and community-based support help GPs, other health and care professionals and local agencies to refer people to a link worker. The link worker gives people time and focuses on what matters to the person.
For some people this will be about taking part in outdoor activities in nature. Green Social Prescribing aims to connect people with activities in nature which can benefit their health and wellbeing, such as community gardening and food-growing projects.