Social Prescribing Link Worker Survey on Outcome Monitoring, England 2025

409 survey responses from Social Prescribing Link Workers in England, collected in 2025. The data pertains to the monitoring and reporting of patient and service-level outcomes for social prescribing interventions. It was authored by Daisy Fancourt and last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze predictors of outcome reporting behavior based on awareness of the SP Information Standard and data sharing practices.
• Model the relationship between access to patient records and the use of quantitative outcome measures.
• Benchmark the frequency of outcome monitoring against national standards for social prescribing services.

Strengths

• Includes specific survey statistics, such as 57.5% of workers reporting patient-level outcomes 'often' or 'very often'.
• Provides detailed odds ratios for predictors of reporting behavior, like a 2.29 OR for awareness of the SP Information Standard.
• Reports on the usage rates of specific outcome measures, including ONS4 (61%), MyCaW, PAM, and Wellbeing Star.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

2025 National Social Prescribing Link Worker Survey.

Collection Method

Survey responses from Social Prescribing Link Workers (SPLWs) who hold a caseload and are based in England.

Time Range

2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-29 17:31:58; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England