The Green Dreams Project
Evidence Of Impact
OUR SERVICES
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Social Prescribing
The first project in 2010 entailed employing link workers to empower those patients whose social problems were making them ill. In 2012 Green Dreams was the first in the UK to be commissioned to provide such a service, for 22 GP surgeries across East Lancashire.
This came to be known as ‘ in 2016, the naming of which Green Dreams was a part of. This makes the project unique in having designed, implemented, written about, lobbied on, disseminated, and measured social prescribing programs on both small, and large scales.
Dr Fleming has lobbied extensively across the country to disseminate this work. He was a founder member of the National Social Prescribing Network which made social prescribing available to all. Social prescribing is now established across the UK.
Co-Creation
We were commissioned by the Social Enterprise Investment Fund (SEIF) to examine a new funding mechanism for statutory commissioners to work across organisations, namely a Social Impact Bond (SIB). This involved us creating and leading an MDT for a large number of statutory organisations over the 12 month term of the commission.
As well as this, because of our track record we were able to work with East Lancs Hospitals Trust to look for new ways of working between Primary and Secondary Care. This was a major project that ultimately led to the set-up of ‘PWE Healthcare’ in 2017. The service now has 25,000 patients and operates under the care of East Lancs Hospitals Trust.