*[[Campaign to End Loneliness International Conference]] session*
## East Sussex Council
- "The process you use to get to the future is the future you get"
- co-design a process for appointing a lead organisation.
- Stewardship approach taken
## Mathias- More Together (Denmark)
- Evidence and gap maps on evidence in social loneliness
- Large scale complex intervention
- 100,00 population.
- Engage the community and institutions. Join campaigns and activities to join together.
- Collective Impact Framework- Stanford.
- Capacity building and socialisation.
## National Academy for Social Prescribing - Dr Bogdan Chiva Giurca.
- Over-medicalisation of the healthcare system. Not biomedical evidence but rooted in social circumstances. GPs just prescribe as it's easier.
- Not a new concept 'old wine, new bottle'
- ==Anyone can make a referral==. Taxi drivers. Self referral.
- Funded by UK govt. Training provided by department of health.
- Japan- suicide prevention and particularly focussed on young people
- Singapore- bring the community into the hospital
- Can support existing staff structure to move to SP
- Evidence of social prescribing working- lots of it
- Don't write a prescription. Just refer them to link worker. Spends between three and five sessions to get to know them and build report.
## What can you do without funds?
- Only the link worker in SP which is funded. Led to debate and funding. Doctors sending from funded area to unfunded area.
- Go to shared investment funding.
- Connect the connectors.
- ==Evaluate rather than set KPIs==.