Social Prescribing - FOI Response Register

1. Within your health board, could you specify the name and location of each of your emergency departments, minor injury units, walk in centres and urgent treatment centres? 

NHS Shetland has one ED which is located at the Gilbert Bain Hospital in Lerwick. We do not have any social prescribing pathways instigated via ED

For each of your individual Emergency Departments, Walk in Centres, Minor Injury Units or Urgent Treatment centre could you please answer the following questions?:

2. Which of the following options best describes the social prescribing provision in your Emergency Department, Walk-In-Centre, Minor Injuries Unit or Urgent Treatment Centre? 

• We have an active social prescribing service 
• We previously had a social prescribing service, but it is not active currently 
• We are currently developing a social prescribing service 
• We have never had a social prescribing service

3. What date did your social prescribing service start?
4. What date did your social prescribing service end?
5. Which of the following factors does/did your social prescribing service support with?

• Housing and homelessness 
• Violence reduction 
• Alcohol and drugs 
• Social isolation and loneliness
• Mental health
• Severe and multiple disadvantage 
• High intensity/ high frequency service use 
• Employment and training 
• Youth specific interventions
• Early years interventions
• Domestic abuse  
• Independent living 
• Other – please could you tell us

6. How many patients are/were referred to your social prescribing service on average each month?
7. How is/was your social prescribing service funded? 
8. How many social prescribers (Whole Time Equivalent) are employed in your emergency department?