9.D. Scientific session: Innovative global nature-based social prescribing interventions to promote wellbeing

Abstract While social prescribing research and practice originates from and has been adopted widely throughout the United Kingdom, global interest and uptake of social prescribing has increased, with well over 30 nations reporting some level of adoption and implementation. In this round table session, we examine new results from the H2020 RECETAS Consortium, dedicated to nature-based social prescribing interventions to alleviate loneliness and improve health-related quality of life. Specifically, we will showcase key elements and early results about intervention fidelity outcomes, training model adaptations, health economic evaluations, and regional health system policy integration (10 min per presentation). This will set the stage for a dynamic discussion with the audience to contemplate how research findings can best be ‘translated’ into concrete guidelines for adopting and implementing holistic and person-centred models of social prescribing to address a range of social health conditions. This session will bring multi sectoral perspectives including medicine, public health, health economics, and health policy to examine new evidence to support and advance nature-based social prescribing interventions for practice in communities worldwide. Key messages • Innovations in social prescribing offer ways to address conditions that affect physical, cognitive, and mental health through person-centered, group-supported, and nature-based strategies. • Early engagement of multisectoral stakeholders is key to ensure SP can work for diverse populations, different health conditions, and across dynamic care settings.