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Mitigating the Barriers

Cultural

Standards

Tooling

Benefits from Approaches

The consolidated barriers were used in a three workshops - with Managers, user research team and the technical review team to generate ideas to mitigate the barriers. The mitigation ideas where categorised into Cultural/Process or Technical Standards and Tooling. They were then assessed to understand potential implementation types, the effort required by stakeholder groups, benefits they may bring and any existing case studies found.

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Mitigation type

Implementation

Strategy description

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Area-wide Physical activity session data collector

To increase the take up of OA and the range of information available, Local Areas (probably better at the Integrated Care System level), should provide an application that will allow every Activity Provider (and community group) in their area to load their session data on to an OA feed collector. This then needs to be widely promoted to large, but arguably more importantly to smaller, hyper-local providers that normally deliver a more appropriate “offer”

M - Identify and procure an application to be used as a default in the area. Promote this and better alternatives in case someone prefers one of those. Simple aim is to get everyone on OA data feed.

Greater Manchester and LB Westminster councils have taken this approach

Managers understanding of open data benefits

Open data seems to be something that people are doing because someone has told them to or because someone has paid them to do it. Success will depend on a need to use open data.

The managers are at the heart of this process and so this strategy recommends that they are helped to understand the benefits that open data can bring in joining up the many systems across the different sectors in their Integrated Care Partnership and ideally the Integrated Care System. The

@Procurement

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strategy will be a key weapon for managers but having them on board to drive the take up of OpenActive will be key.

M - Create an ICS/ICP benefit awareness raising campaign with links to open data training courses

Activity buddy

It was very clear that the majority of the current SPLW clients would require some form of ‘hand holding’ initially. This was mostly undertaken by the SPLW themselves. However it was noted that this may not be the best use of their time. One

@SPLW

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teams interviewed had their own list of volunteers/befrienders that they used to help their clients (most of whom were also former clients themselves). Indeed taking on these volunteering roles is known to be beneficial and short form part of SPLWS strategies locally. There are a number of volunteer management systems out there and it is thought that these could be beneficially aligned as Social Prescribing progresses.

There are a number of initiatives looking at making better use of volunteers e.g

@#r27

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There isn’t an easy way to couple a volunteer management system and so this strategy is simply to highlight that it may be useful for

@SPAcP

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to consider linking in some way to a volunteer management system

M - Line up SPLW with local volunteer management systems

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@#r27

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Social physical activity / Activity by stealth

Many SPLW have said that physical activity is not top of the agenda for their clients. Often this is because they see exercise as a burden and something they won’t enjoy. However Service Users have explained that they do enjoy socialising. This is a simple strategy for activity providers who wish to be attractive to Social Prescribers to consider offering social elements into their activities. Activity providers should complete the

@Attending-type

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to show the group work but then use the

@Client activity confident

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and

@Activity further info

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to promote the social side of their activity.

Social prescribing link workers tend to be currently supporting clients who have complex needs. It is not surprising that physical activity is not top of their ‘to-do’ list. They prefer more social and interesting activities than doing physical exercise.

The link workers generally work on a shared decision making process and so physical activity has a referral rate of around 10%. (Note this is a lot higher if the client is referred into frontline workers working in the ‘active’ sector). This may be a result of the motivation generated by the frontline worker. See

@Training frontline workers

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strategy.

UKActive have said that getting people moving is a step in the right direction and there are a lot of more interesting and social activities that involve physical activity. This strategy is about promoting activity through a more interesting and social angle. Use of the

@Pathways

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strategy is one way to achieve this. Encouraging leisure centres and local activity providers to consider

@Social physical activity / Activity by stealth

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would be another idea.

AcP - Try to describe the social elements in the physical activity and perhaps include photos of people enjoying the physical activity together

Investment into the right tools for SPLW

Many frontline workers interviewed were frustrated that they don’t always have adequate resources, technology and tools. Encouraging people to take up exercise / attend any local group when they face many other challenges will rely on exploring the options together to build consensus. SPLW need access to the right mobile tools and devices to be successful in this respect.

This is not really a strategy but a statement to understand that implementing a digitally enabled data-ecosystem will need all stakeholders to have access to the right hardware,

M - consider the hardware as part of the costs of a worker

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