Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:47 pm on 19 September 2018.
This Government has already taken an approach to promoting social prescribing and to developing the evidence base for its impact on physical and mental health. I've made a series of announcements about a range of projects that we are supporting with additional resource. You may have missed them; I'll happily direct you to them again. In addition to that, you may also want to take a look at some excellent examples of large-scale social prescribing, some of which are taking place in north Wales with a broader health board approach, and, of course, the excellent Valleys Steps initiative that has its headquarters in Cynon Valley. So, we recognise the case for more social prescribing. We'll look at more evidence about what we could do with it. It's not just in the field of having a healthier weight but of a range of potential benefits we wish to understand and then properly exploit.