The current healthcare system focuses on sick care, treating illness rather than preventing it. The Global Social Prescribing Alliance (GSPA) promotes a broader approach—recognizing that wellbeing extends beyond medicine.
The Global Social Prescribing Alliance affirms three core aims:
Vision: Thriving communities driving a social revolution in health and wellbeing.
Mission: Advancing social prescribing globally through collaboration, innovation, and advocacy, aligned with UN SDG 3 (Good Health & Wellbeing).
1️⃣ Redefining Health & Wellbeing – Shaping a universal narrative that prioritizes sustainable, high-value healthcare.
2️⃣ Clinical Leadership – Building a global network of healthcare champions to drive change.
3️⃣ Community Development – Partnering with financial institutions & governments to invest in impactful health solutions.
4️⃣ Building Blocks of Social Prescribing – Focusing on Arts, Nature, Exercise, and Knowledge for holistic health.
5️⃣ Workforce Solutions – Addressing the global healthcare workforce shortfall while creating meaningful jobs.
6️⃣ Digital Innovation – Empowering patients through technology, shared decision-making, and goal-oriented care.
✔ Hosting global events, roundtables & webinars.
✔ Providing expert advice on social prescribing & health innovation.
✔ Delivering training & development programs.
✔ Offering consultancy & investment opportunities in health initiatives.
💡 GSPA is creating a sustainable health model—improving wellbeing while generating meaningful jobs at scale.
— Gareth Presch, CEO, GSPA
Join us for the Global Social Prescribing Summit 2025!
Email: gareth@whis.world for more details.
In 2021, the UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care launched the Global Social Prescribing Alliance (GSPA). The Alliance was established to champion a global shift toward prevention-focused, person-centered healthcare.
Rooted in the belief that wellbeing is shaped by far more than clinical interventions, the GSPA brings together health leaders, policymakers, academics, and community organizations to scale social prescribing internationally.
As a membership organisation, the Global Social Prescribing Alliance (GSPA) brings global communities together to transform healthcare through social prescribing and create inclusive economic opportunities that leave no one behind.
Empower people to take control of their own health and wellbeing through social prescribing.
To deliver health and wellbeing for all through integrated, community-led solutions.
Most healthcare systems today remain focused on treating illness rather than preventing it. This reactive “sick-care” approach often neglects the wider social, emotional, and environmental factors that influence health.
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed deep-rooted health inequalities (related to gender, race, disability, and socioeconomic status), and highlighted the fragility of global health systems. Now, more than ever, there is a need for proactive, community-based approaches.
GSPA is a global platform that connects patients, clinicians, community organisations, educators, policymakers, and the private sector to
implement social prescribing as a model for prevention, self-care, and holistic wellbeing.
By shifting the focus from illness to wellness, the Global Social Prescribing Alliance empowers people at every
stage of life — from childhood to old age — to manage their own physical, mental, and social health.
We are changing the way people think about their health by:
We support people and communities to co-design local solutions that improve health and wellbeing while addressing the wider determinants of health.
#GSPA
Ideal for grassroots and local organisations involved in health, wellbeing, or social prescribing.
*Subject to availability and T&Cs
Copyright © 2025 World Health Innovation Summit - All Rights Reserved.
Invest through our not for profit World Health Service