Podcast on Prescription

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 

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.

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!

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!

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!

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!