Global Social Prescribing Alliance

Supporting SDG3 'Good Health and Wellbeing'

"Delivering a social revolution in health and wellbeing"

Global Social Prescribing Alliance:
At a glance

A distinct opportunity

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Purpose (Raison d’être)

The Global Social Prescribing Alliance is a group of stakeholders active worldwide in the implementation of UN sustainable development goal 3.  

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The VISION

“Enable thriving communities to deliver a social revolution for their health and wellbeing while generating value”. 

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Our MISSION

is to establish a global working group dedicated to the advancement of social prescribing through promotion, collaboration and innovation

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Global Social Prescribing Alliance knows that our strength lies not only in the words we stand by, but most importantly through the actions of our initiatives.

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By working together we could overcome our challenges much more efficiently, and that is why we ultimately decided to launch Global Social Prescribing Alliance.

About

The current healthcare system is based predominantly on a sick-care model: it is one that waits until we have fallen ill. The system is trying to deal with a rise in demand from an ever-more diverse population with increasing complexity of needs and conditions and higher expectations from health services. Healthcare costs have been rapidly rising over the past few decades. We face unprecedented challenges with staff shortages predicted to be 18m by 2030. Our one-size-fits-all approach to health doesn’t work: the demand for a more efficient, personalised delivery model is growing.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has pushed the world’s health systems, health workforce, social and political systems to their limits, and sometimes beyond. It has also exposed underlying health inequality and the fragility of some systems. However, the response across the world to the COVID-19 pandemic has also demonstrated the amazing achievements that are possible when governments, communities and people work together against common challenges. We have seen astonishing examples of high quality healthcare delivery in extremely challenging circumstances, and the resilience of governments, healthcare systems and people.

In a world operating beyond the pandemic, traditional approaches to health and wellbeing might no longer be enough.

SDG Champions - Espoo 2019

Sustainable Development Goals

The current healthcare system is based predominantly on a sick-care model: it is one that waits until we have fallen ill. The Global Social Prescribing Alliance is a group of worldwide partners who recognise that what keeps us well is more than medicine. The Alliance’s vision is to: “Enable thriving communities to deliver a social revolution for their health and wellbeing while generating value”. Its mission is to establish a global working group dedicated to the advancement of social prescribing through promotion, collaboration and innovation. The Alliance’s work supports the implementation of UN sustainable development goal 3 – “good health and wellbeing”.

Social Prescribing Week 2022

4th-11th March

Watch some of our previous webinars below: