Evaluate your practice and its

impact on patients; develop your

skills; maintain your wellbeing; act
ethically

Module 5
 Learning objectives
By the end of this module, participants should be able to know:

1 How to measure the success of your

social prescribing scheme? 3 How to maintain your wellbeing
as a link worker?

2 How to improve your practice

through peer-review ? 4 How to act ethically as a link
worker?
 Lesson 1:
Measuring the
success of your social
prescribing scheme
Measuring success
 Measuring success

▪ How many people have been referred to you?

▪ How many people dropped-out from the social
prescribing scheme?
▪ How many people continue to require your services?
▪ How many people became autonomous in attending
activities as a result of the scheme?
▪ Which activities were most successful to support
your beneficiaries?
Evaluating the impact

▪ Interview about outcomes

▪ Wellbeing plan assessment
▪ Assessment of outcomes with
standardized measurement tools
 Evaluating the impact

Consistent Timely

Regular
 Assessing your work

• Improve referral Improve the support

• Benefit patients of patients

• Effective • Secure funding

communication • Expand the
• Information scheme
 Lesson 2:
Improving your
practice through
peer-review
Informal support

• Link worker’s association or network

• Other community workers who can relate
to your situation of intermediary between
individuals and the community
• Community services and activities’
providers
• Any other groups or persons that you trust
 Formal support

Peer support Debriefing

Psychological
support
Giving feedback

• Feedback to primary
healthcare provider
• Regular meeting with
implementation team
How to develop your skills?
How to find support?
 Lesson 3:
Maintaining your
wellbeing as a link
worker
Maintain the boundary between your
personal and professional life
 Limit your workload

• examples of typical schedule

• challenges of local context
• administrative tasks
• patient follow up
• networking with other link workers
and community services
• meeting with the healthcare service or
implementation team you are part of
 Seek external support

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 How to stay motivated?

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 Lesson 4:
Acting ethically as
a link worker
Key ethical principles

1 Ensuring beneficiaries’ safety

(do no harm)

2 Maintaining beneficiaries’
confidentiality (e.g. around
their personal circumstances,
health conditions, personal
information, etc.)
 Key ethical principles

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 Additional references
• Polley M, Whitehouse J, Elnaschie S, Fixsen A. What does successful social prescribing
look like - mapping meaningful outcomes. London: University of Westminster; 2019.
https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/qyz67/what-does-successful-
social-prescribing-look-like-mapping-meaningful-outcomes
• ‘Links Worker’ Roles: exploring identity, evolution and expressions of the role within
and across five programmes. The Health and Social Care Alliance; 2016.
https://www.alliance-scotland.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Links-Worker-
Roles-Module-Final.pdf
• A toolkit on how to implement social prescribing. Manila: World Health Organization
Regional Office for the Western Pacific; 2021. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.
• Reference list and acknowledgments for this training can be accessed in the Downloads
section.