The Personalised Care team have just launched two videos from the Patient Voices for Social Prescribing Programme, showcasing powerful first-hand patient stories which can help to influence decision making and shape how services are delivered in the future. 

Social prescribing has huge impacts on patients’ lives, through providing access to support for wider issues or concerns impacting their health and wellbeing, that isn’t available through traditional healthcare. 

Patients are rarely given the opportunity to tell their story around this impact. This new Patient Voices for Social Prescribing Programme provided a safe space, support and a platform for individuals with lived experience of social prescribing to share their experiences. 

Spencer Cole, 2023 Patient Voices participant said: 

“Thank you for giving me the opportunity to participate in such a rewarding pilot project. I’d also like to thank Debs (storytelling trainer) for giving us the tools and confidence to tell our stories. I’m shocked that I learnt so much. It was such a positive experience to meet so many wonderful people & hear their stories. I’ve come away inspired.” 

TPHC are committed to co-production. We hope the programme will demonstrate the impact of effective co-production using lived experience to promote, support and influence services. 

The programme has been co-produced with various groups including NHS and Mental Health Peer Leaders, Lived Experience Practitioners, Hospital Trust Patient Voices groups, Social Prescribing Managers and Link Workers across London. 

You can find out more about the Patient Voices for Social Prescribing Programme here.  

Hear from programme participants Spencer, Jen, Charmaine, Christine and Nisha discuss their time on the Patient Voices for Social Prescribing Programme and how it has empowered them to tell their stories.

Following completion of the programme, participants were involved in a video where they used the skills they learnt on the programme to share their story and experience of social prescribing. Hear from Nisha, Jen, Spencer, Charmaine and Christine, people with lived experience of social prescribing, share how social prescribing has positively impacted on their lives and offer personal insights into its far-reaching benefits.