It has been our experience that if GPs in an area have not engaged with a service, it puts pressure back on the third sector provider to change and adapt because of the lack of buy in.
In its written submission, the NALW reported a lack of understanding of the role and role boundary of link workers as a continuing barrier to wider uptake of social prescribing, concluding: "Everyone in the GP practice should buy into the vision of social prescribing and understand it".