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12-25 November 2019 Issue 775
Access to leisure for all NHS patients the government has set out plans for every patient in the country to have access to sport and leisure activities through social prescribing on the nhs. Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock has launched a new National Academy for social Prescribing (NAsP), tasked with mapping out detailed plans on how to best steer patients towards activities most beneficial to their conditions. NAsP will work to standardise the quality and range of social prescribing available to patients across the country
■■NASP will work to standardise the
and increase awareness of the benefits
quality and range of social prescribing
of social prescribing by building and NAsP has been developed in
promoting the evidence base. It will also develop and share best
partnership across government, with
practice, as well as look at new models
sport england, Arts Council england and
and sources for funding and focus on
a range of voluntary sector partners.
developing training across sectors. There will also be increased efforts to
"NAsP is about all of us in health, arts, culture, sport, communities
bring together all partners from health,
recognising that prevention is better
housing and local government with arts,
than cure," said health and social
culture and sporting organisations to
care secretary Matt Hancock.
maximise the role of social prescribing.
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NASP is about recognising that prevention is better than cure Matt Hancock
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