ArticleSociology of health & illness2022
'He called me out of the blue': An ethnographic exploration of contrasting temporalities in a social prescribing intervention.
Article in Sociology of health & illness, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Silence, Awkwardness and Discomfort: Understanding How Health Interventions Fail-An Ethnographic Study of a Peer Support Intervention for People With Type 2 Diabetes in Denmark.Sociology of health & illness · 2025Article
- Apples and oranges? The importance of recognizing heterogeneity in arts and health research publications.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Beyond the Queue: Exploring Waiting Practices in the Stories of Patients With Breast Cancer.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Article
- Building common understanding: seeking consensus and defining social prescribing across contexts - a collective commentary on a Delphi study.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- A Thematic Synthesis of the Experiences of Social Prescribing Among Patients in the UK.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2024Article
- Theories used to develop or evaluate social prescribing in studies: a scoping review.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Implementation and impact of a social prescribing intervention: an ethnographic exploration.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2023Article
- 'He called me out of the blue': An ethnographic exploration of contrasting temporalities in a social prescribing intervention.Sociology of health & illness · 2022Article
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Abstract
Social prescribing, a way of connecting patients to local services, is central to the NHS Personalised Care agenda. This paper employs ethnographic data, generated with 19 participants between November 2018 and July 2020, to explore the socio-temporal relations shaping their experiences of a local social prescribing intervention. Our focus is on the ways in which the intervention synchronised with the multitude of shifting, complex and often contradictory 'timespaces' of our participants. Our focus on the temporal rhythms of everyday practice allows us to trace a tension between the linearity and long horizon of the intervention and the oft contrasting timeframes of participants, sometimes leading to a mismatch that limited the intervention's impact. Further, we observed an interventional 'drift' from continuity towards unsupported signposting and 'out-of-the-blue' contacts which favour the temporality of the intervention. We demonstrate a need for intervention planning to be flexible to multiple, often conflicting, temporalities. We argue that health interventions must account for the temporal relations lived by the people they seek to support.
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