Primary-care-based social prescribing for mental health: an analysis of financial and environmental sustainability

Social prescribing services for mental healthcare create links with support in the community for people using primary care. Social prescribing services may reduce future healthcare use, and therefore reduce the financial and environmental costs of healthcare, by providing structured psychosocial support. The aim of this study is to assess the effects of a social prescribing service development on healthcare use and the subsequent economic and environmental costs.