Survey of general practitioners’ awareness, practice and perception of social prescribing across Europe

Figures & data

Table 1. Participants’ countries of practice.

Country	Participants
Austria	2	Malta	1
Belgium	5	Montenegro	1
Bulgaria	2	Netherlands	2
Croatia	13	Norway	1
Cyprus	2	Poland	2
Czech Republic	4	Portugal	12
Denmark	2	Romania	5
France	14	Serbia	1
Georgia	3	Slovakia	2
Germany	10	Slovenia	2
Greece	2	Spain	17
Hungary	3	Sweden	1
Ireland	7	Switzerland	17
Israel	14	Turkey	20
Italy	27	Ukraine	1
Latvia	3	United Kingdom	8
Macedonia	2	n	208

Table 2. Participant characteristics.

Participant characteristics	N	%
n	208
Age
25–34	39	18.8
35–44	53	25.5
45–54	48	23.1
55–64	42	20.2
≥65	26	12.5
Gender
Female	122	58.7
Male	85	40.9
Prefer not to say	1	0.5
Years of Practice
0–9	53	25.5
10–19	55	26.4
20–29	42	20.2
≥30	58	27.9
Practice location
Rural	36	17.3
Semi-rural	54	26
Urban	118	56.7

Figure 1. GPs agreement with the statement ‘I understand what social prescribing is’.

Figure 2. Distribution of GPs across European countries who heard the term social prescribing before.

Figure 3. Distribution of GPs across European countries who routinely refer their patients through a formal system to access activities and groups in the community.

Figure 4. GPs perception of funding sources of social prescribing activities.

Figure 5. Perceived impact of SP on workload, job satisfaction and patient health/well-being by GPs.