*[[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==.