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We wanted your views about social prescribing or community navigation.
Social prescribing and community navigation is a service that can empower you to make a positive change in your life and within your community. It can link you to support for a range of different challenges that matter to you, including financial support, housing, information and advice, carers support and social connections and activities to help you live a happy, independent and safe life.
Link workers and community navigators have time to build trusting relationships, start with what matters to the person, create a shared plan and introduce people to community support.
have complex social needs which affect their wellbeing.
It helps people to get more control over their healthcare, to manage their needs and in a way that suits them.
We are now writing a strategy that will improve social prescribing and community navigation across Kent and Medway.
If you have had support from a community navigator or link worker we wanted to know about your experience of the service, and what suggestions you had for the development of social prescribing in the future.
We needed your views and opinions about the service, which will help us write the strategy and continue to build a better service for our communities.
The survey closed on 27th March. Thank you for telling us your thoughts. We will study the responses we have received and write a summary of what we heard. This will be given to the team who are writing the social prescribing and community navigation strategy and they will use your feedback to influence the future of the service.
We wanted your views about social prescribing or community navigation.
Social prescribing and community navigation is a service that can empower you to make a positive change in your life and within your community. It can link you to support for a range of different challenges that matter to you, including financial support, housing, information and advice, carers support and social connections and activities to help you live a happy, independent and safe life.
Link workers and community navigators have time to build trusting relationships, start with what matters to the person, create a shared plan and introduce people to community support.
have complex social needs which affect their wellbeing.
It helps people to get more control over their healthcare, to manage their needs and in a way that suits them.
We are now writing a strategy that will improve social prescribing and community navigation across Kent and Medway.
If you have had support from a community navigator or link worker we wanted to know about your experience of the service, and what suggestions you had for the development of social prescribing in the future.
We needed your views and opinions about the service, which will help us write the strategy and continue to build a better service for our communities.
The survey closed on 27th March. Thank you for telling us your thoughts. We will study the responses we have received and write a summary of what we heard. This will be given to the team who are writing the social prescribing and community navigation strategy and they will use your feedback to influence the future of the service.
These are the main providers of social prescribing and community navigation in Kent and Medway. Some Primary Care Networks (PCNs) employ their own link workers, you can ask at your GP practice to find out more.
