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Social prescribing is one of the Ten High Impact Changes from the GP Forward View. But what is it? How does it work and who can benefit? In this week’s podcast Ben speaks with Nick Sharples from training consultancy DNA Insight. Nick explains how his involvement in social prescribing evolved from his company’s focus on active signposting (listen to our previous podcast with Nick here). He also explains the three factors which will enable social prescribing to work best, how it is likely to evolve and much more.

Show Notes

Nick explains how he developed an interest in social prescribing as a step on from care navigation (44secs)

How social prescribing works (1min 27secs)

The services available to which patients can be guided (2mins 16secs)

The language around social prescribing (3mins 08secs)

The evidence around social prescribing (4mins 42secs)

What makes it work well – the three critical success factors (5mins 46secs)

Different models of social prescribing (7mins 24secs)

How social prescribers work with patients (9mins)

Integrating social prescribing services and making savings (10mins 07secs)

Concerns of the voluntary sector (11mins 56secs)

How will social prescribing evolve? (12mins 54secs)

Social prescribing and population sizes (14mins 05secs)

Funding social prescribing (15mins 25secs)

The services Nick’s company offers (16mins 40secs)

Finding out more (17mins 39secs)

Nick’s website is available at www.dnainsight.co.uk