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"You don't get side effects from social prescribing"-A qualitative study exploring community pharmacists' attitudes to social prescribing.

Adam Pattison RathboneHarry PearsonOluwafunmi AkinyemiNia CartwrightStephanie TierneyGill RowlandsLaura Lindsey
Published in: PloS one (2024)
The findings indicate pharmacists may be an underused resource due to a poor understanding of the full scale and scope of social prescribing beyond health promotion, lifestyle interventions. Further work is needed to explore the transferability of the findings to the broader pharmacy workforce to understand how social prescribing can be positioned within pharmacy practice.
Keyphrases
  • primary care
  • mental health
  • healthcare
  • health promotion
  • physical activity
  • adverse drug
  • general practice
  • public health
  • cardiovascular disease
  • emergency department
  • weight loss
  • electronic health record