Social prescribing

Social prescribing (also known as community referral) is when doctors prescribe something for a person which is not a drug.  They are most likely to do this if the persons problems are more social than medical.  The idea has caught on in the National Health Service, in Ireland and the Netherlands 

All sorts of things can be prescribed in this way.  Most common is to help them join a local social group.  In London in 2022 general practitioners started prescribing fruit and vegetables to test if that helped people. 

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