Primary Care Resources
| Folder | File Name | Format | Description |
| Integrated Practice Based Commissioning | Integrating Practice Based and Social Care Commissioning | Word | Based in the East of England, this report describes a regional network to explore ‘the potential benefits for service users of locality based, needs led approaches to joint commissioning'. It describes the interdependencies at the interface between social and primary care where resources are committed to individuals with long term conditions and continuing care needs |
| Integrating Practice Based and Social Care Commissioning Summary | Word | ||
| New Ways of Working | New Ways of Working for Primary Care Mental Health |
Word | This document aims to assist commissioners and providers in the redesign of primary care mental health services and roles, in the context of an NHS in transformation. The ongoing change provides opportunities for primary care mental health to develop roles and to change practice, two elements that are critical to the success of the whole ‘primary care led commissioning' and ‘care closer to home' agendas. |
| New Ways of Working for Primary Care Mental Health Summary | Word | ||
| New Ways of Working for Primary Care Mental Health | PDF |
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| Pharmacists and Self Help Social Prescribing | Self-help via pharmacists | Word | The pilot was a service development project aimed at building on the support and information-sharing activity already routinely offered by many pharmacists to their clients. It aimed to augment this with a focus on and information about depression and anxiety, but also included issues such as self-harm and other difficulties. |
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| Social Prescribing |
Social prescribing for Mental Health | This document describes the use of non-medical interventions, sometimes called ‘social prescribing' or ‘community referral', to improve mental health and wellbeing. Social prescribing supports improved access both to psychological treatments and to interventions addressing the wider determinants of mental health. | |
| Social prescribing for Mental Health Summary |
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| Social prescribing for Mental Health | Word | ||
| Social prescribing for Mental Health Summary | Word | ||
| Criminal Justice Pathways and Primary Care | Wish-u-well-worksheets | PDF |
Breaking the re-offending cycle: Mental health promotion for offenders on resettlement Maryanne Freer and Dave Tomson successfully developed a national toolkit to help primary care professionals deliver mental health promotion. Based on this experience and these resources, the Primary Care Programme commissioned the production of a prototype toolkit for promoting the mental health of offenders. |
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| Prompt-card |
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