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National Evaluation of the Preventing and Tackling Mental Ill Health through Green Social Prescribing Project: Final Report - March 2021 to June 2023

Haywood, A., Dayson, C. ORCID: 0000-0003-2402-1183, Garside, R. , Foster, A., Lovell, R., Husk, K., Holding, E., Thompson, J., Shearn, K., Hunt, H., Dobson, J., Harris, C., Jaques, R., Witherly, D., Northall, P., Baumann, M. & Wilson, I. (2024). National Evaluation of the Preventing and Tackling Mental Ill Health through Green Social Prescribing Project: Final Report - March 2021 to June 2023 (BE0191). London: Department of Food and Rural Affairs.

Abstract

Description
The aim of this project is to evaluate the Preventing and Tackling Mental Ill Health through Green Social Prescribing Project, in order to iteratively feed into project design and implementation throughout the funded period, and to inform wider rollout of green social prescribing following the initiative. The evaluation will assess processes, outcomes, and value-for-money, and improve understanding of what works, for whom, in what circumstances and why.

Objective
Objective 1: To work collaboratively with national, regional, and local partners and stakeholders to undertake scoping and further development of the evaluation design following contract award Objective 2: To undertake in-depth evaluation in the seven local test and learn sites throughout the two years of delivery Objective 3: To undertake lighter-touch evaluation of green social prescribing in a wider range of locations outside the funded test and learn sites Objective 4: To improve understanding of the challenges and opportunities in delivering and scaling up green social prescribing to aid recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic Objective 5: To provide a range of opportunities to share learning and good practice across the seven local test and learn sites and other locations, and with the national partnership Objective 6: To contribute to the development of tools and resources to support wider rollout of green social prescribing, based on the findings of the evaluation Objective 7: To identify key learning about the national partnership Objective 8: To provide high quality evaluation reports and other outputs to communicate findings to policy and delivery partners and wider audiences.

Publication Type: Report
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Departments: Bayes Business School
Bayes Business School > Faculty of Management
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