Financial Well-being Advice in UK and Ireland Social Prescribing: A Scoping Review

A scoping review of 28 articles exploring financial well-being advice delivered within social prescribing in the UK and Republic of Ireland. The review, conducted by Simon Newstead and published on figshare in May 2026, screened 126 articles to identify three models of support delivery. It focuses on advice targeting welfare benefits, debt, and legal issues.

Use Cases

• Analyzing models of financial advice delivery in healthcare settings based on the described practitioner-led, specialist-led, and wraparound models.
• Mapping the reported outcomes of financial support for patients and healthcare staff as mentioned in the review.
• Identifying research gaps in social prescribing for financial well-being based on the review's discussion of limited literature on certain models.

Strengths

• The review is based on a structured search of five electronic databases, screening 126 articles.
• It synthesizes findings from 28 included articles (15 peer-reviewed, 13 grey literature).
• The dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 136 KB PDF document, representing a limited textual summary rather than raw research data.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; the content is a narrative review.
• The temporal coverage of the underlying literature is not specified.

Provenance

Source

Simon Newstead via figshare.

Collection Method

Scoping review of academic and grey literature from five databases, searched between 04/02/2025 and 10/02/2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-29 06:13:27.

Geography

United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.