Workshop Objectives

A practical half day workshop on the social determinants of health, helping staff understand how non-medical factors shape demand, access and outcomes and how to respond more effectively in general practice

Delivery approach

Trainer-led presentations, facilitated discussion, peer learning, practical exercises and personal action planning.

Workshop Price

We can deliver our workshops virtually or face-to-face and provide supporting course materials.

Learning Outcomes    

  • Recognise non-medical drivers of health need and demand.
  • Identify high-risk groups and inequality patterns locally.
  • Use community, prevention and social prescribing options more effectively.
  • Translate insight into practical everyday action.

Agenda

Start

  • Welcome wider determinants context
    • Why social determinants matter in primary care and neighbourhood health
  • What shapes health beyond medicine 
  • Using a population-health lens
  • Seeing determinants in everyday contact
    • What staff notice, hear and can respond to safely

Break

  • Community assets and social prescribing
    • When and how to connect people to wider support
  • Reducing avoidable demand and harm
    • Targeted intervention, signposting and continuity considerations
  • Applied local planning
    • Mapping local determinants and practical responses
  • Reflection and action planning
  • Questions and Close

End