Yes. It's not necessarily a social worker. I'm a graduating health sciences student at Western University. We're looking into the implementation of a social prescription checklist for doctors. We know that doctors' time with the patients is relatively limited, so it's about giving doctors a checklist to go through the social supports that their patient does or does not have, and provide referrals if they themselves determine that this patient does not have adequate social support.
It's not necessarily adding any extra human resources to the hospital, but rather taking the extra minute from doctors and ultimately leveraging the existing social supports of the community.