Below you will find a list of 36 terms that are used in social prescribing. You can click on a term or select an icon in the mind map and it will take you to the description for that term. You can also use the flowchart to see how the terms sit within the social prescribing pathway.
The glossary uses all the terms and descriptions from “A glossary of terms for social prescribing” and highlights sector-specific preferences for terms. We have also made a shorter easy-read version.
Within the description of a term and/or the ‘Alternative Terms’ subsection, where alternative terms have been identified as preferred terms for specific sectors this has been indicated through the use of a superscript key. Terms are displayed in bold black with an accompanying superscript indicator of the sector (health care = HC, social care = SC, community voluntary services and organisations = CVSO). For example, Link worker HC.
How to use the splossaryTM.
Social prescribing terms
- Action Planning
- Asset-Based Approach
- Asset Mapping
- Blue Referral
- Books on Referral
- Buddy System
- Building the Practice
- Care Navigator
- Community Assets
- Community Support Hubs
- Community & Voluntary Sector Organisations
- Co-Production
- Creative Referral
- Digital Social Prescribing
- Education on Referral
- Exercise Referral
- Green Referral
- Health Facilitator
- Holistic
- Nature-Based Interventions
- Person-Centred Approach
- Practice-Managed Scheme
- Referral
- Signposting and Active Signposting
- Social Cafes
- Social Prescribing
- Social Prescribing Approaches
- Social Prescribing Champion
- Social Prescribing Models
- Social Prescribing Outcome Principles
- Social Prescribing Pathway
- Social Prescribing Practitioner
- Statutory Services
- Welfare Support Referral
- Wellbeing
- What Matters Conversation