Making best use of primary care social prescribing, connecting communities and tackling inequalities

In this episode, Monica Boulton, healthcare integration lead at the National Academy for Social Prescribing talks to Rhiannon Ashman, deputy editor at MIMS Learning, about how all members of the primary care team can embed the ethos of social prescribing into their practice. Monica highlights the importance of finding out from patients, ‘not what’s the matter with you, but what matters to you’.
She also discusses the role of social prescribing in the care pathway for long-term conditions, its applicability for children and young people, and how link workers can help to connect with hard-to-reach communities to tackle health inequalities.
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