THE NATIONAL ACADEMY FOR SOCIAL PRESCRIBING

Many things that affect our health can't be treated by doctors or medicine alone. Things like loneliness, debt, or stress due to financial pressures or poor housing.  

Social prescribing connects people to non-medical support to address these issues and other unmet needs.

NASP's mission is simple: we want people to live the best lives they can through social prescribing. 

Our goal is to ensure social prescribing thrives across the whole country. We envision a vibrant, innovative, and ambitious movement. One that connects communities and mobilises hundreds of thousands of people. Each with a shared commitment to transforming lives.  

• We support the grassroots groups and national charities who offer socially prescribed activities.  
• We connect the health system to the incredible work that’s happening in communities.  
• We help medical professionals, including Social Prescribing Link Workers and students.   
• We work with leading researchers to build more evidence for social prescribing.  
• We develop effective new approaches to common problems. 
• And we champion social prescribing across the world. 

We know that social prescribing plays an important role in preventing health problems, in combating loneliness, saving NHS money and in making sure people get the practical support they need.