Social prescribers fight health inequalities | #TeamBartsHealth blogs - Barts Health NHS Trust

We chatted to social prescribers Remi and Maisha about the work they’re doing to support patients struggling to access things like food, housing and financial advice. Hello, I’m Remi (pictured right), a social prescriber working in the cardiovascular prevention team on the heart attack pathway. More than a quarter of the patients I see have difficulties meeting their basic needs at the end of the month. This is a significant proportion of patients. Getting better and healthier following heart problems is difficult enough, let alone when you’re also grappling with unemployment, food poverty and worrying about how you're going to pay your bills. My role is to provide non-medical social support to those post-surgery. I connect them to services which might be able to support them with housing advice, debt, physical exercise, employment, access to food and more. I support individuals for up to six sessions over the phone. Sometimes, this also includes meeting patients at their local libra

We chatted to social prescribers Remi and Maisha about the work they’re doing to support patients struggling to access things like food, housing and financial advice. Hello, I’m Remi (pictured right), a social prescriber working in the cardiovascular prevention team on the heart attack pathway. More than a quarter of the patients I see have difficulties meeting their basic needs at the end of the month. This is a significant proportion of patients. Getting better and healthier following heart problems is difficult enough, let alone when you’re also grappling with unemployment, food poverty and