ISPPA

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Resources

Global Social Prescribing Alliance (GSPA) step-by-step guide to developing ‘good’ social prescribing and starting a social prescribing movement within your own country.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Social prescribing in community pharmacy : A systematic review and thematic synthesis

By Laura Lindsey, Stephen Hughes & Adam Pattison Rathbone

Perceptions of pharmacy involvement in social prescribing pathways in England, Scotland and Wales

By Denise A. Taylor, Gina M. Nicholls & Andrea D.J. Taylor

Global Developments in Social Prescribing

By Bogdan Chiva Giurca, Siân Slade, Kheng Hock Lee and al.

Establishing Internationally Accepted Conceptual and Operational Definitions of Social Prescribing Through Expert Consensus: A Delphi Study

By Caitlin Muhl, Kate Mulligan, Imaan Bayoumi, Rachelle Ashcroft and Christina Godfrey

Social Prescribing Competence among Community Pharmacists and Pharmacy Students in Norway

By Riyaan Mahamud Gabeyre, Misbah Hussein, Siedra Salih, Salia Amir and Parisa Gazerani

Social Prescribing: Moving pediatric care upstream to improve child health and wellbeing and address child health inequities

By Caitlin Muhl, Susan Bennett, Stéphanie Fragman and Nicole Racine

Position Statement & Case Studies

Royal Pharmaceutical Society SP statement to raise awareness and encourage appropriate referrals

How our pharmacy is using social prescribing to support patients during Covid

Stephen referral to Doncaster Social Prescribing team by Alison Howard, a Community Pharmacist

Commissioned Report & Articles

NHS National overprescribing review report

The role of social prescribing in community pharmacies - A scoping review

Priti Patel: Pharmacies should be used as ‘social prescribing hubs’

Free Online Course

A free 30 minutes course with Dr Marie Anne Essam on Pharmacy Social Prescribing which has already over 1000 students from 87 countries.

Interested In Reading More?

Pharmacy Movement

The first book on the topic of Pharmacy Social Prescribing in which the author interviewed 24 experts. It was published in January 2018 which laid down the foundations for SPPA.