Impact of co-located welfare advice in healthcare settings: prospective quasi-experimental controlled study.

Evaluations of primary healthcare co-located welfare advice services have been methodologically limited.To examine the impact and cost-consequences of co-located benefits and debt advice on mental health and service use.Prospective, controlled quasi-experimental study in eight intervention and nine comparator sites across North Thames.

Co-located welfare advice in general practice: A realist qualitative study.

General practitioners (GPs) engage with patients about a variety of social issues distinct from direct clinical work ("non-health" issues), such as health-related benefits and debt. Co-located welfare advice services could provide support to practices but have usually been considered in terms of patient rather than practice outcomes. We aimed to develop an initial programme theory for how the provision of co-located advice supports specific practice outcomes, and to identify salient barriers and enabling factors.