Nick Sharples's guest appearances

Nick Sharples

The General Practice Podcast

Ben Scott

James Morrow

Mark Newbold

Steven Williams

Gary Hughes

Sarah Kay

Rebecca Rosen

Rebecca Thomas

Paul Gordon

Judy Oliver

Robert Varnam

Paul Deffley

Ben Gowland

Clare Allcock

Tara Humphrey

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Today (8th July) is the first ever National Social Prescribing Link Worker Day! Organised by the National Association of Link Workers it aims “…to celebrate and showcase the contribution of social prescribing link workers in improving population health and wellbeing.” In support of this our podcast this week is the fifth in our series looking at Social Prescribing. Nick Sharples is Managing Partner at DNA Insight, a specialist training consultancy that is increasingly involved in training Social Prescribing Link Workers. In this episode he talks about the various models that are emerging for employing, recruiting and training Link Workers. Show Notes Nick describes his involvement in social prescribing (44secs) Who employs the Link Workers? (1min 53secs) Reluctance to outsource the role (3mins 30secs) Outsourcing the role (4mins 16secs) Competition for Link Workers – three options for recruitment (5mins 36secs) External recruitment (6mins 40secs) Recruiting from within the practice (7mins 16secs) Advantages of the options – building an appropriate model (7mins 54secs) The provision of training (9mins 18secs) Resources for training (10mins 28secs) How much budget to put aside? (11mins 02secs) Effective working with large scale – prioritising (11mins 58secs) Average workload (13mins 13secs) Managing a caseload (13mins 53secs) A practical example from Scotland (15mins 32secs) Sharing best practice – learning co-ordinators (16mins 33secs) Finding out more (17mins 31secs) The DNA Insight Social Prescribing pages are here Nick has put together a list of useful resources below:  Future NHS Collaboration Platform https://future.nhs.uk/connect.ti/socialprescribing/groupHome hosted by the NHS Personalised Care Group – Request membership via england.socialprescribing@nhs.net  and then access the Social Prescribing pages/Regional pages/Regional Discussion Forums     Social Prescribing Network -  https://www.westminster.ac.uk/patient-outcomes-in-health-research-group/projects/social-prescribing-network and @SocialPrescrib2 on Twitter     Twitter Social Prescribing Wednesday - @SocialPresHour – every other Wednesday and hosted/organised by Elemental     Friday afternoon (4:30pm to 5:30pm Fridays, 10am-11am Monday) Social Prescribing email meet-up social-prescribing@googlegroups.com  Apply for membership at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/social-prescribing or email sam@agileventures.org  if having difficulty.     National Association of Link Workers www.connectlink.org Christiana Melam christiana@connectlink.org   Professional body representing Social Prescribers/Link Workers with lots of useful resources for Link Workers and those employing them. 

Today (8th July) is the first ever National Social Prescribing Link Worker Day! Organised by the National Association of Link Workers it aims “…to celebrate and showcase the contribution of social prescribing link workers in improving population health and wellbeing.” In support of this our podcast this week is the fifth in our series looking at Social Prescribing. Nick Sharples is Managing Partner at DNA Insight, a specialist training consultancy that is increasingly involved in training Social Prescribing Link Workers. In this episode he talks about the various models that are emerging for employing, recruiting and training Link Workers. Show Notes Nick describes his involvement in social prescribing (44secs) Who employs the Link Workers? (1min 53secs) Reluctance to outsource the role (3mins 30secs) Outsourcing the role (4mins 16secs) Competition for Link Workers – three options for recruitment (5mins 36secs) External recruitment (6mins 40secs) Recruiting from within the practice (7mins 16secs) Advantages of the options – building an appropriate model (7mins 54secs) The provision of training (9mins 18secs) Resources for training (10mins 28secs) How much budget to put aside? (11mins 02secs) Effective working with large scale – prioritising (11mins 58secs) Average workload (13mins 13secs) Managing a caseload (13mins 53secs) A practical example from Scotland (15mins 32secs) Sharing best practice – learning co-ordinators (16mins 33secs) Finding out more (17mins 31secs) The DNA Insight Social Prescribing pages are <a href="https://dnainsight.co.uk/social-prescribing/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> Nick has put together a list of useful resources below: <ul> <li>Future NHS Collaboration Platform <a href="https://future.nhs.uk/connect.ti/socialprescribing/groupHome" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://future.nhs.uk/connect.ti/socialprescribing/groupHome</a> hosted by the NHS Personalised Care Group – Request membership via <a href="mailto:england.socialprescribing@nhs.net">england.socialprescribing@nhs.net</a>  and then access the Social Prescribing pages/Regional pages/Regional Discussion Forums</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Social Prescribing Network - <a href="https://www.westminster.ac.uk/patient-outcomes-in-health-research-group/projects/social-prescribing-network" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.westminster.ac.uk/patient-outcomes-in-health-research-group/projects/social-prescribing-network</a> and @SocialPrescrib2 on Twitter</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Twitter Social Prescribing Wednesday - @SocialPresHour – every other Wednesday and hosted/organised by Elemental</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Friday afternoon (4:30pm to 5:30pm Fridays, 10am-11am Monday) Social Prescribing email meet-up <a href="mailto:social-prescribing@googlegroups.com">social-prescribing@googlegroups.com</a>  Apply for membership at <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/social-prescribing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/social-prescribing</a> or email <a href="mailto:sam@agileventures.org">sam@agileventures.org</a>  if having difficulty.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>National Association of Link Workers <a href="http://www.connectlink.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.connectlink.org</a> Christiana Melam <a href="mailto:christiana@connectlink.org">christiana@connectlink.org</a>   Professional body representing Social Prescribers/Link Workers with lots of useful resources for Link Workers and those employing them.</li> </ul>

Nick Sharples – progress with Social Prescribing Link Workers

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.

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 <a href="https://ockham.healthcare/episode-62-nick-sharples-active-signposting-non-medical-telephone-triage/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> here</a>). He also explains the three factors which will enable social prescribing to work best, how it is likely to evolve and much more.

Episode 124: Nick Sharples– Social prescribing