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In the third in our series of podcasts on social prescribing, GP and social prescribing champion Marie Anne Essam returns to tell us three powerful real-life patient stories in which a social prescription has changed a patient’s life; a carer who got his purpose back, a man with a housing problem who turned his life around and an anxious, reluctant patient who found the support she needed. Plus: guidance on the new link workers will shortly be issued to all primary care networks and Marie Anne gives us a sneak preview of what it will contain.

Show Notes

Marie Anne explains her engagement with social prescribing (0:50)

Story Number One: A Carer (2:15)

Marie Anne reflects on how social prescribing impacted on this patient (5:55)

Story Number Two: A Problem with Housing (7:05)

Patient relationships and social prescribing (12:34)

Story Number Three: Persistence Pays Off (13:23)

Overcoming the potential problems of employing a link worker (16:53)

Let the resources go… (18:57)

What will be in the new guidance (19:55)

The availability of the guidance (22:25)

Is this package attractive enough? Unpacking the “why?” (23:40)

Ben recommended our earlier podcast with Sheinaz Stansfield on social prescribing and you can find that here

Marie Anne’s previous podcast on social prescribing and link workers can be found here

And the other podcast in this series, with Christiana Melam on the roles and skills of link workers, can be found here