Guildford and Waverley Social Prescribing Service

Self-Referral Form

The Guildford and Waverley Social Prescribing Service is hosted by Voluntary Action South West Surrey. We are currently trialling the use of self-referrals and as such the self-referral pathway is currently only open to patients registered to a GP practice in the East Guildford Primary Care Network. These practices are:

• Austen Road Surgery

• Horsley Medical Practice

• Merrow Park Surgery

• Shere Surgery

• St Luke's Surgery

• The Villages Medical Centre

If you are registered to a different GP surgery, please contact them to be referred directly into the service. You can email socialprescribers.guildfordandwaverley@nhs.net for more information or if you have any queries.

Inclusion Criteria

The Social Prescribing Service is for anybody over the age of 18 registered to a GP in the stated Primary Care Network(s) above, but particularly for:

• People with non-medical needs.

• People who would benefit from proactive, preventative support to maintain or improve their health and wellbeing.

• People who are lonely and or isolated, particularly people who have managed long term mental health conditions or who suffer chronic pain.

• People who are experiencing low-level mental ill-health.

• People with managed mental health diagnoses who may need additional support to access social and community opportunities to improve their quality of life.

• Older people who are at risk of reducing independence.

• Parents who require support to maintain or improve their family life.

• People who require specialist support with issues such as debt, welfare, housing or homelessness.

Exclusion Criteria

Please note that whilst the service is open to anybody aged 18+, we are unable to support anyone with:

• On-going personal assistance or support.

• Currently residing in a residential / care home.

• With unmanaged mental health diagnoses.

• Whose health and social care needs are of a severity deemed in need of a professional health and social care consultation.

• Under the age of 18.

• Who has not given informed consent to this service.

• Who displays unreasonable behaviour unacceptable to the provider and its staff

The Social Prescribing Service is primarily a signposting service that will direct and refer individuals to the relevant and more specialist support services. We aim to be the bridge that allows individuals to have knowledge of and access to the variety of services available to them. We do not provide long-term support, and once the referral has been worked on, it will be closed. Patients can re-refer back into the service if they require Social Prescribing support at any point in the future.

Please note that the Social Prescribing Service is not an emergency service, nor do we provide immediate and urgent crisis support. If you, or somebody you know is in need of urgent support, please click here or see the below for more information around support resources.