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Social Prescribing in the News

​We integrate social prescribing to improve holistic healthcare, garnering positive impact in the news.

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Improving Health Outcomes

Associate Professor Lee Kheng Hock, SCH Deputy CEO (Education and Community Partnerships) shared in a Lianhe Zaobao piece on ‘Social Prescribing for Health’, on how social prescribing can improve health outcomes
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Social Prescribing: Placing Community at the Heart of Healthcare

Adeline Kwan from SingHealth Community Hospitals (SCH) shares the importance of considering a person's social context in medical treatment, and SCH has successfully brought social prescribing into the Singapore healthcare system.
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Digital Social Prescribing

Social prescribing connects people to assets within their community, to improve their social determinants of health. As many seniors are socially isolated amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, electronic social prescribing has emerged as a way to keep these vulnerable groups meaningfully engaged. SingHealth Community Hospitals seeks to collaborate with general practitioners (GPs) and other community partners to maximise this impact.
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