Social prescribing practices and learning across the North West Coast region: essential elements and key challenges to implementing effective and sustainable social prescribing services

Table 5 Perceived priorities of SP project success

Key elements	Social Prescribing projects surveyed n = 50
Securing adequate and sustainable funding	31 (62%)
Getting the programme set up and running	21 (42%)
Engaging or motivating people to engage in services or activities	21 (42%)
Developing skills or capacity – community support or activities	10 (20%)
Developing skills or capacity – linking people into activities	9 (18%)

Other factors identified included building and maintaining relationships, targeted or generic social prescribing, social or medical model, communication, data sharing, operationalising activities, service buy-in to voluntary service opportunities and workload of people with complex needs

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