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Understanding social prescribing in Wales – a mixed methods study

Authors: Carolyn Wallace, Mark Davies, Megan Elliot, Mark Llewellyn, Hayley Randall, Jonathan Owens, Jodie Phillips, Leanne Teichner, Sam Sullivan, Victoria Hannah, Bethan Jenkins, Amrita Jesurasa

All Wales/National

The aim of this work is to understand the landscape of social prescribing activity across Wales, and where possible, to quantify and describe its functions. To meet this aim we used three methods to achieve an all-Wales representation, mixed methods online survey comprising of 61 questions and yielding n=130 responses from n=89 organisations, focus groups (n=6) with a total of n=33 participants and a single workshop with n=30 participants.

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