Website: http://www.waystowellness.org.uk
medical practitioners
social prescribing
interventions to achieve sustained healthy behaviour change and improved self care social prescribing
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The preservation and protection of health, and the relief of poverty, by advancing social interventions, for individuals primarily in North Cumbria and North East England with health conditions, in particular but not exclusively by:- Developing and testing social interventions, and working with other sectors to do this;- Providing information and prescribing social interventions to individuals to improve public health; - Advancing the education of general public, medical practitioners and others in relation to social prescribing and other social interventions; and - Such other exclusively charitable purpose(s) as the Trustees may from time to time determine in accordance with the law of charity For the purpose of this article ‘social interventions’ means non-medical interventions to achieve sustained healthy behaviour change and improved self-care. Social prescribing supplements the support a patient gets from their healthcare professional. A doctor or healthcare professional can prescribe an intervention, as they would medicine. Typically, the interventions include physical activity, health eating/cooking, social interaction and support with positive relationships.
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