Health and Well-Being Study: Project to map organisations that provide a social prescribing function in and near the South Downs National Park - AWARD

The Health and Well-Being system is complex; currently in the South Downs National Park there are:

• o4 Authorities with a public health remit, each with a statutory Health and Well-being Board
• o6 Clinical Commissioning Group areas
• o15 Clinical Commissioning Groups, and
• o4 Sustainable Transformation Plans
• oMultiple primary care networks
• oSocial prescribing services delivered across the 4 local authority areas.

We are looking for a contractor to help us establish a baseline of information as follows:

• oType and number of organisations currently using the National Park for delivering social prescribing activity
• oHow these organisations operate in the National Park
• oThe types of service/activities being provided and the impact on participants
• oNumber of referrals through social prescribing mechanisms that are currently linked to the National Park, either by being delivered in the National Park or by using the National Park for inspiration in some other way as part of the social prescribing activity
• oHow the current provision is funded
• oCurrent capacity within the sector and limitations on it
• oWhat would help those organisations to expand or diversify their offer
• oExplore options for sustainable funding for providers to expand the offer (this might be a separate project or piece of work).
• oExplore impact of Covid on delivery.