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

A scoping review of 28 articles explores models for delivering financial advice within social prescribing programs in the UK and Republic of Ireland. The work, authored by Simon Newstead, was published on figshare in May 2026. It synthesizes findings from 15 peer-reviewed and 13 grey literature sources to map current support practices.

Use Cases

• Compare models of financial advice delivery (practitioner-led, specialist-led, wraparound) based on the three identified frameworks.
• Analyze reported outcomes for patients and healthcare staff based on the review's synthesis of literature findings.
• Identify gaps in research or service provision for financial well-being support within social prescribing based on the review's conclusions.

Strengths

• The review is based on a systematic screening of 126 articles, resulting in 28 included sources.
• It identifies and describes three distinct models of service delivery from the literature.
• The dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 44.7 KB PDF document, representing a very 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 in the provided metadata.

Provenance

Source

Simon Newstead via figshare.

Collection Method

Scoping review conducted via searches of five electronic databases between February 4-10, 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-29 06:13:28.

Geography

United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.