Episodes
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In this podcast we hear Shiv's story, who came to acting through Outside Edge Theatre Company, when he was in the depths of an addiction and dependency problem. But it was the first step of many that lead to his recovery and the happy, healthy life he leads today.
It’s stories like Shiv’s that show that sometimes it’s non-medical interventions that can make the most fundamental difference. If you are interested to know more about the groups and organisations like Outside Edge in your area, ask your GP practice for a referral to a link worker.
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In this episode we hear Linda's story. Her life was turned upside down after losing her husband, she had barely left home without him for decades. An avid traveller, she was just beginning to find her feet, and take solo trips abroad when COVID-19 trapped her inside.
Linda found out about ‘Walk and Talk’ along Fleetwood seafront through a local Social Prescriber – Wendy. Wendy persuaded her to go along on the walk and soon she was out every week.
It’s normal to be nervous to try something new. But there are social prescribers like Wendy to walk with you every step of the way and people like Linda to welcome you when you get there. If you need support, speak to your local GP surgery about social prescribing in your area. It might even change your life.
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In this podcast we hear Evrill's story, she found lockdown hard. Stuck in her house in Manchester, she couldn’t do any of the things she used to love: singing, dancing, spending time with her family and her church community.
After spending some time talking to a link worker - explaining how she was feeling – they referred her to a community music organisation called String of Hearts.
Social prescribing can be that helping hand needed to take us from isolated and lonely to happy and fulfilled. If you aren’t sure what changes you need to make your life happier and healthier, speak to your GP surgery ask for an appointment with a link worker.
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Social Prescribing Show 2023
In this special episode of Podcast on Prescription, Dr Radha looks back at this year's highlights from the Social Prescribing Show. This episode features recordings and interviews from panellists and guests.
We held our second annual Social Prescribing Show at the Southbank Centre, London, to mark Social Prescribing Day,
It was a chance for medical professionals, link workers, voluntary sector staff and funders to discuss how we can work together to push social prescribing forward, to improve the health of our communities in the UK and worldwide.
This year, we were delighted to welcome Charlotte Osborn-Forde, NASP's incoming CEO, to give the keynote speech.
Social Prescribing Day is annual celebration of those who make social prescribing possible.
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What is the evidence for social prescribing?
In this special episode of Podcast on Prescription, Dr Radha discusses the evidence base for social prescribing with two of the UK’s leading experts, Professor Helen Chatterjee and Dr Marie Polley.
There is a rapidly growing body of evidence around social prescribing, and at NASP we’re working with leading academics to bring this together and produce easily digestible summaries of high-quality research.
Helen and Marie co-lead our International Evidence Collaborative, which includes more than 260 experts in eight countries. They have played a key role in writing many of the evidence reviews on our website.
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How can our interaction with nature help support our wellbeing?
Our ultimate episode of season 2 of Podcast on Prescription welcomes a host of wonderful guests, all with different backgrounds and expertise surrounding nature, social prescribing, and the impact it can have on our health and happiness.
Dr. Radha's first guest is Michael Perry aka The Plant Geek. Michael has been listed in the Sunday Times as one of Britain's 'Top 20 Most Influential Horticulturalists'. He champions the role that gardening and plants can play in keeping us well.
Our second guest is Amanda Craig, Natural England's Director of People and Nature. She oversees their Connecting People with Nature programme, which focuses on tackling barriers to nature and inequalities in access to nature.
Our next guest is Pam Warhurst. Pam chairs Incredible Edible CIC, supporting and amplifying the work of groups around the UK., developing a new localised partnership model where citizen and anchor both play their parts in creating a healthy local food economy, and pressing for a change in the law giving the citizen the right to grow food in the public realm.
Our final guest, Dr. Richard Claxton is a GP based in Kent, he is a GP trainer and sits on the Kent Local Medical Committee. He advocates for the benefits that gardening and horticulture have both for himself and for his patients.
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Podcast on Prescription is back! This week Dr. Radha will be finding out about how social prescribing has developed globally. She will be joined by 7 special guests, who are part of the Global Social Prescribing Alliance:
James Sanderson, Personalised Care Group at NHS England and NHS Improvement & NASP
Dr Michael Dixon is a NHS GP at the Culm Valley Integrated Centre for Health in Cullompton, Devon
Dr. Kate Mulligan, Canadian Institute for Social Prescribing
Mr Gareth Presch, World Health Innovation Summit.
Assoc Prof Lee Kheng Hock, Singapore General Hospital
Isabelle Wachsmuth-Huguet, World Health Organisation
Dr Bogdan Chiva Giurca, NASP
If you want to find out more: Home | Global Social Prescribing Alliance (gspalliance.com)
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It's Social Prescribing Week! What better way to celebrate than to speak to social prescribing link workers who work tirelessly on the ground to provide personalised care for individuals, supporting them to live their best lives.
This week, Dr Radha is joined by three inspirational women.
Our first guest is Bev Taylor, who is the Executive Director of Strategy at the National Academy for Social Prescribing. Bev led social prescribing at NHS England from 2015-2019. She worked with partners to develop regional social prescribing networks, an online social prescribing community, build the social prescribing team (as part of the Personalised Care Group), produce national guidance, provide learning and development support for social prescribing link workers and build the case for NHS Long Term Plan investment. This work resulted in a NHS Long Term Plan commitment to embed 4500 social prescribing link workers in every primary care network multi-disciplinary team across England and to enable over 900,000 people to benefit from social prescribing.
Bev’s background is as a housing manager and community development worker. She has worked 30 years in the VCSE sector, where she has supported co-production and leadership development at local, regional and national levels. Bev co-led Regional Voices, Jesuit and supported the creation of new carers, housing, out-of-school and mental health community projects.
Our second guest is Gay Palmer. Gay works as a link worker for Southwark PCN, she is also a Trustee at NASP. Gay has supported the programme in Southwark since it was implemented in March 2020 and has helped to maintain its ongoing growth and development in relation to number of referrals and the capacity of the team.
Gay has a 20-year history of being a Nurse and has worked in a variety of community settings across North and East London. The diverse roles gave rise to many opportunities to understand the needs of people and the impact that wider determinants of health can have on a person their family and the community.
Gays life ethos is “keep it moving take the time to learn, grow, and move with what you have”, which she feels has allowed her to have a fulfilling career with diverse opportunities. These opportunities and experiences she hope will now benefit social prescribing locally and to make an impact on the wider community within social prescribing.
Thirdly Radha will be joined by Michelle Pilling. Michelle is Senior Lead for Social Prescribing at NHS England and NHS Improvement. She has held previous senior leadership roles as Deputy Chair of a clinical commissioning group (CCG) and as North West Social Prescribing Regional Learning Coordinator for NHS England and NHS Improvement.
Her social prescribing journey started back in 2001, first as a link worker in the VCSE sector, as a charity manager, through to strategic leadership roles in the NHS. She brings a broad perspective of social prescribing and the VCSE and health and care economy, with extensive experience of coproduction and personalised care. In her previous roles she is most proud of the £4.2 million invested through the CCG in grass root community commissioning, secured through her CCG role. Her values align with promoting ethical approaches to social prescribing that focus on sustainable community development to deliver truly integrated care. Developing a different model of 21st Century healthcare that combines wellbeing and prevention with bio-medical approaches.
Don't forget #SocialPrescribingDay on the 10 March!
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It's Children's Mental Health Week and to mark it, Dr. Radha Modgil will be talking to three wonderful guests all about children, young people and social prescribing.
Our first guest this week is Brad Gudger. He is the founder and Director of Alike, a game-changing charity created to combat loneliness and isolation caused by cancer. Alongside his work with Alike, Brad is an NHS Youth Expert Advisor and a member of the NHS Children and Young People’s Transformation Board. Brad is also Vice-chair of NASP.
Radha is also joined by Dawn Mitchell, who works at StreetGames. StreetGames harnesses the power of sport to create positive change in the lives of young people from underserved communities across the UK. StreetGames' work helps to make young people and their communities healthier, safer and more successful.
Dawn has been working with StreetGames for over 10 years, most recently on the national pilot of social prescribing for children and young people which has highlighted the potential for social prescribing to positively impact on all aspects of a young person’s health and wellbeing.
Thirdly, we are delighted to invite Rachael, a YoungMinds Activist to talk with Radha about her experiences. YoungMinds is the the UK’s leading charity fighting for children and young people's mental health.
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This week, Dr. Radha will be finding out about the connection between being physically active and improving your mental health and wellbeing.
Our first guest is Keri-anne Payne. She is 3 time Olympic Open Water Swimmer & Olympic Silver medallist from Beijing 2008. Keri-anne retired from competitive swimming in 2017 after the Rio Olympic Games and founded 2 companies Triscape & Straight Line Swimming. Both are based around open water swimming and inspiring as many people as possible to take up this amazing sport. Keri-anne's main day job is tutoring an award winning Level 2 open water coaching qualification and has qualified over 400 coaches in 4 years.
Ruth Nutter will also join this weeks episode. She is a Sheffield-based creative producer and community engagement practitioner. She co-produces activities which increase people’s wellbeing and connection with each other and where they live. She is the project co-ordinator for Heeley Trust’s Thriving Communities project, working in collaboration with HandleBards theatre company, Heeley Plus Primary Care Network and many local community groups. Ruth is author of Paradise is Here: Building Community Around Things That Matter.
Our third guest, Michelle Roberts works for the Richmond Group of Charities, a collaboration of leading health and social care charities, managing their physical activity programme. The programme aims to support people with long term conditions to move more and one of the ways the Richmond Group do this is through their We Are Undefeatable campaign, in partnership with MS Society, Mind, Parkinson’s UK and Sport England and funded by the National Lottery. Michelle also recently was a guest speaker at our Thriving Communities webinar.
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Podcast on Prescription is back and the first episode of 2022 will explore the connection between financial wellbeing and our mental and physical health.
Our host Dr. Radha Modgil will be joined by three special guests.
Our first guest is Iona Bain. Iona is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, speaker and author, and is the UK’s go-to voice on millennial money. Since founding the pioneering Young Money Blog in 2011, she’s gone on to become one of the most respected financial writers of her generation, with a rare combination of accessibility and authority. Iona’s empathetic approach has propelled her towards regular punditry on BBC programmes including Morning Live, NewsNight, Question Time and the One Show. She’s also Radio 1’s Money Hacker in residence for the flagship advice programme Life Hacks. Iona writes a weekly column for the i paper, and is a frequent contributor to the Financial Times. Her journalism and commentary have appeared extensively in both national and regional titles, including the Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the Independent and the New Statesman, and Iona's book 'Own It!' is all about how young people can invest their way to a better future. She is also the youngest-ever governor of the Pensions Policy Institute.
Our second guest is Paul Rhodes. Paul is partnership coordination manager at the Money and Pensions Service. He supports businesses, charities and local authorities to implement programmes and activities that enhance the financial wellbeing of their employees and customers, and help deliver the UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing.
Thirdly, Hanan Paganini will join Radha. Hanan is one of the Financial Support Link workers for Back on Track’, a pilot running in Lambeth and Southwark to improve the health and financial wellbeing for people who have, or are at risk of developing, both long-term health conditions and financial problems. Within the project, she is responsible for assessing peoples financial and health needs, supporting them with income maximisation through benefits and debt advice.
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This week Dr. Radha will discuss loneliness with our guests on this Christmas special episode of Podcast on Prescription.
Christmas can be a happy time for some surrounded by family and friends. For others it is not, often exacerbating feelings of loneliness. Our host and guests will discuss the impact that loneliness can have on our mental and physical health and how social prescribing can help alleviate these feelings.
Our first guest, Tracey Crouch has been the MP for Chatham and Aylesford since 2010; she became the country's first Minister for Loneliness in 2018. Tracey is a practitioner of mindfulness and was one of the early members of the cross-party parliamentary mindfulness group and an advocate of the benefits of nature to wellbeing
Our second guest is the National Academy for Social Prescribing Chief Executive James Sanderson. James is also Director of the Personalised Care Group at NHS England and NHS Improvement, where he leads on a range of programmes that are supporting people to have greater choice and control over their health and wellbeing
Dame Esther Rantzen DBE is our third guest; her career spans several decades in broadcasting television and radio. Amongst her many accomplishments, in 2012 she invented The Silver Line, a helpline for older people of which she is President, and which has merged with Age UK.
Finally, Dr. Radha will chat with Ruth and Neil Hannah from Musical Memories. Musical Memories was established in 2016 as a not-for-profit organization created to give older people the opportunity to sing together and enjoy each other’s company with the aim of combatting social isolation and loneliness and thereby improving health and wellbeing.
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This week, Dr. Radha Modgil will be discussing the healing power of heritage with three special guests.
Suzannah Lipscomb has endured a varied career. She is a Emeritus Professor at the University of Roehampton and she is a well-known as a broadcast historian too. She has written and presented a plethora of documentaries and series on channel 5, Netflix and the BBC and an award-winning podcast . Furthermore Suzannah is the author of five books, focusing on the sixteenth century. With Dr. Radha, she discusses how heritage can help maintain your mental health.
Our second guest, Desi Gradinarova, is the Senior Policy Adviser (Wellbeing & Inclusion) at Historic England and Historic Environment lead at NASP. Desi has a PhD in Medieval British History, has worked in education in secondary and further education, in media in Bulgaria, but now works in the Historic England Wellbeing team. NASP and Historic England work collaboratively to advance the concept and implementation of social prescribing on a national and local level. Desi is passionate about the ability of heritage to keep individuals and communities connected and empowered but recognises that people and organisations need support to help them unleash the benefit.
Thirdly, Katrina Gargett will join Dr. Radha. Katrina is the Community Engagement Office at the York Archaeological Trust and runs the Archaeology on Prescription project. The aim of this project is to improve wellbeing of the city of York's residents through archaeology, help them foster new social connections, and build confidence through learning new skills. She will be discussing with Radha more about this amazing project.
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Dr Radha is joined by Dean Asplin from the Angling Trust and Dr Mark Wheeler from iCARP to discuss how angling and social prescribing can improve mental wellbeing.
Dean Asplin has worked for the Angling Trust (National Governing Body for Angling) for over 12 years and is responsible for the delivery of the Environment Agency, National Angling Strategic Services contract for the South of England. This involves supporting the delivery of 100’s of ‘Get Fishing’ events that engage approximately 7000 new participants per year. He leads nationally on the ‘Get Fishing for Wellbeing’ initiative that looks to inform, educate and support the NHS practitioners and Community Link workers on the clear benefits of angling and how this amazing sport can support patients to boost their mental health and wellbeing.
Dr Mark Wheeler is a chartered psychologist, an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society and an experienced mental health therapist with over ten years’ of working both within the NHS as well as privately. As a therapist Mark’s area of expertise lies in treating trauma. His PhD focused on the benefits of group outdoor activities and the subsequent reduction of PTSD symptoms in military veterans. Mark is passionate about working with this client group. After receiving awards for his research Mark then went on to form the not for profit iCARP CIC to continue researching the potential benefits of this form of social prescription. He is also a keen angler who enjoys spending time on the bank.
Themes - angling, mental health, mindfulness, nature, evidence for angling and mental health
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Dr Radha Modgil will begin season 2 of Podcast on Prescription with a conversation with Tom Watkins.
Tom is a Social Prescribing evangelist and is now the Lead for NASP’s Thriving Communities programme in the East of England. His love of the creative arts inspires his work to this day and he is a real believer that the power of creative thinking can change lives.
Themes - the power of the human story; how social prescribing can change/rewrite our story for the better; how community, connection and SP can help us shape a different story of the life we want to live.
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Welcome to a brand new episode of Podcast On Prescription!
The National Academy for Social Prescribing is joining forces with Dr Radha Modgil to chat to some incredible individuals about their wellbeing journey and to shine a light on the importance of #SocialPrescribing.
Our guest this week is the amazing Daz Dooler!
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Welcome to a brand new episode of Podcast On Prescription!
The National Academy for Social Prescribing is joining forces with Dr Radha Modgil to chat to some incredible individuals about their wellbeing journey and to shine a light on the importance of #SocialPrescribing.
Our guest this week is the amazing Justin Moorhouse!
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Welcome to a brand new episode of Podcast On Prescription!
The National Academy for Social Prescribing is joining forces with Dr Radha Modgil to chat to some incredible individuals about their wellbeing journey and to shine a light on the importance of #SocialPrescribing.
Our guest this week is the amazing Kamal Ellis-Hyman!
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Welcome to a brand new episode of Podcast On Prescription!
The National Academy for Social Prescribing is joining forces with Dr Radha Modgil to chat to some incredible individuals about their wellbeing journey and to shine a light on the importance of #SocialPrescribing.
Our guest this week is the incredibly inspiring Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson!
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Welcome to a brand new episode of Podcast On Prescription!
The National Academy for Social Prescribing is joining forces with Dr Radha Modgil to chat to some incredible individuals about their wellbeing journey and to shine a light on the importance of #SocialPrescribing.
Our guest this week is TV presenter Kevin Duala!
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