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‘We are the eyes and ears of the community’: reflections from social prescribing link workers during the real-world practice of a new community enhanced model

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-06035-9

Published Online: 2025-11-20

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Heap, Cheyann Jade https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5367-403X
Croft, Mike

Hughes, Clair

Linton, Alfre

Mackin, Sinead

Rothwell, Adam

Traverse, Julie

Waters, Maria

Ridley, Julie

Coventry, Peter

Bauer, Annette

Webber, Martin
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Article History

Received: 15 September 2024

Accepted: 25 September 2025

First Online: 20 November 2025

Competing interests

: The authors declare no competing interests.

: This is a reflective paper which provides insights from the Community-Enhanced Social Prescribing (CESP) feasibility study, and is not a research study. CESP was approved by the University of York Social Policy and Social Work Ethics Committee on 4th March 2022 (ref. SPSW/S/21/10). All activities were conducted in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations.

: The current paper did not undertake any new research study with human participants, or use their identifiable data. It does not report any results from the CESP feasibility study, and the authors were not study participants. Instead, this paper provides a reflective case study, where all attendees at the training described within are also consenting co-authors of the paper. Hence, informed consent for this paper was not applicable.

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