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Beyond social prescribing—The use of social return on investment (SROI) analysis in integrated health and social care interventions in England and Wales: A protocol for a systematic review

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  • Genevieve Hopkins
  • Eira Winrow
  • Ceryl Davies
  • Diane Seddon

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With increasing costs of healthcare in England and Wales following the COVID-19 pandemic, finding alternatives to traditional medical interventions is more important than ever. Social prescribing provides a way of addressing health and well-being through using non-medical methods that may help relieve costs to the NHS. Evaluating interventions, such as social prescribing, which have high social (but not easily quantifiable) value, can be problematic. Social return on investment (SROI) is a method of assigning monetary values to both social value as well as traditional assets, so provides a way of evaluating social prescribing initiatives. This protocol outlines the steps that will be taken in a systematic review of the SROI literature surrounding social prescribing-type integrated health and social care interventions based in the community in England and Wales. Online academic databases such as PubMed Central, ASSIA and Web of Science will be searched, as will grey literature sources such as Google Scholar, the Wales School for Social Prescribing Research (WSSPR) and Social Value UK. Titles and abstracts from the articles returned by the searches will be reviewed by one researcher. Those selected for full text review will be independently reviewed and compared by two researchers. Where the researchers disagree a third reviewer will help resolve any differences. Information collected will include identifying stakeholder groups, assessing the quality of SROI analyses, identifying intended and unintended changes of social prescribing interventions, and comparing social prescribing initiatives in terms of SROI costs and benefits. Quality assessment will be independently conducted on the selected papers by two researchers. The researchers will discuss to obtain consensus. Where there is disagreement, a third researcher will resolve these cases. A pre-existing quality framework will be developed and used to assess the quality of the literature.Protocol registration Prospero registration number: CRD42022318911.

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  • Genevieve Hopkins & Eira Winrow & Ceryl Davies & Diane Seddon, 2023. "Beyond social prescribing—The use of social return on investment (SROI) analysis in integrated health and social care interventions in England and Wales: A protocol for a systematic review," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(2), pages 1-9, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0277386
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0277386
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