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Green Health and Access West Wales - Health Care Professionals

The Green Health and Access Project, funded by Enabling Natural Resources and Wellbeing in Wales (ENRaW) is a one-year pilot project investigating current greenspace provision for local communities. It also explores how to support providers of green health initiatives to promote best practice and enable them to work more effectively with the health sector. It aims to raise the profile of social prescribing to ‘nature-based health care’ by building strong partnerships between the healthcare and environmental sectors across Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire. As part of this pilot, we are keen to hear the views of health professionals. Please take five minutes to complete our attached questionnaire. Many thanks for your cooperation.

Definitions:
What do we mean by Social Prescribing?
'Social prescribing provides a pathway to refer clients to non-clinical services, linking clients to support from within the community to promote their wellbeing, to encourage social inclusion, to promote self-care where appropriate and to build resilience within the community and for the individual’ (Social Prescribing in Bristol Working Group, 2012). GPs and other health workers can refer clients via social prescribing. 

What do we mean by Green Health (or Green Care)?
‘Green care is an inclusive term for many ‘complex interventions’, such as outdoor walking groups, animal-assisted therapy, therapeutic horticulture and others. What links this diverse set of interventions is their use of nature and the natural environment as a framework in which to create these approaches’ (Greencare a Conceptual Framework, Sempik, Hine and Wilcox, 2010)

What do we mean by a Link worker or Community Connector?
Link workers or community connectors connect people to community groups and statutory services for practical and emotional support.

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* 1. Your name

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* 2. Your professional Role

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* 3. Where do you work?

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* 4. Have you ever used a social prescribing method for health referrals before?

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* 5. If you answered 'yes' or 'not sure' to the queston 4, what form did the social prescribing take and how useful have you found it for your patients/clients?

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* 6. If you answered 'No' to question 4, why have you not used this method before?

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* 7. Have you ever worked with community connectors or link workers before? 

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* 8. Have you ever referred people to GREEN HEALTH providers before?

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* 9. Which green health providers do you, or have you, referred to?

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* 10. Currently, how aware are you of the different Green Health providers in your area that focus on health and wellbeing?

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* 11. Can you provide the names of the Green Health providers that you are aware of in your area?

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* 12. What do you consider to be the main barriers to participation in Green Health Social Prescribing activities?

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* 13. What do you consider to be the main benefits of social prescribing to Green Health Activities?

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* 14. In your opinion, is there anything that you feel would strengthen the case for social prescribing to Green care in your area?

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* 15. Would you be interested in finding out more about Green Health initaitves in your area?

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* 16. GDPR: This information is processed under the area of public interest and research purposes. The information you provide will be stored securely, under a password-protected spreadsheet. It will only be used by a limited number of researchers who are working on the overall evaluation of the project. The information will be used to produce a report, which will be published on the Coed Lleol website and be submitted to ENRaW for evaluation purposes. Data may be used later for future funding bids. The final reports will not include any information that could be used to identify respondents. Any information held by the overall evaluation team on respondents will be deleted three months after the end of the project.

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