Volunteer organisations in Lancashire pushed to crisis by NHS referrals

Volunteer organisations across Lancashire and South Cumbria have been pushed to “crisis point” by the number of people being referred to them for support by the NHS.That was the warning to an influential health and social care committee which heard how the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sector in the region had come under pressure as a result of a rapid increase in what is known as “social prescribing”.

“It was described as having a million travel agents, but no destinations. There is no point in having brilliant social prescribers – of which there are many – if we don’t have the organisations to be referred into and some sustainability for ,” Ms. Allen explained. “I think we’ve all recognised there has been a history of over-medicalising many of these problems. The stats show that people present to the NHS because they don’t really know where to go – and the door’s open the lights are on.

Claire Niebieski, head of population health for the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board, stressed that the commitment did not involve any investment from health and social care organisations in the region at this stage – but said that such a request was likely in the future.

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