An interesting article on community and social care from Mark Gamsu who concludes his article with this point:
“It is very important that statutory organisations such as big NHS providers, Clinical Commissioning Groups and those professionals funded by the state like GPs understand that it is not good enough to just design pathways that reconnect people with communities.
Communities are not just waiting with lots of spare capacity for people to be referred to them. They need investment too – the Rotherham Social Prescribing scheme, one of the biggest in the country invests two thirds of its resources in local community and voluntary organisations.
We should support social prescribing and personalisation pathways but commissioners need to give at least as much weight to investing in grass roots community organisations and building their capacity.” Read the full article here.
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