Social Prescribing Arun Nadarasa

Shea Richburg is the creator of the M-IQ (Metaverse Intelligence Quotient). We discuss on the importance in having MetaPharmacists upskilled in this new field to ensure governance on treatment provided.

Aragorn Meulendijks is the Chief Marketing Officer at YOM (Your Open Metaverse). In this episode, he offers his unique insight on how the Pharmacy workforce could benefit from the Metaverse application for new ways of interacting with the patient. He is also one of the speakers of the upcoming "Pharmacy Social Prescribing Conference" taking place on 19th April 2022.

Tempany Morgan is a PhD candidate based at Nottingham Trent University, researching social prescribing and the development of a community prescribing toolkit, that aims to refine the community group referral process and improve the matching process to community groups. She is currently working from a psychology background and will be applying a social psychological theory, known as the social identity approach to health and wellbeing, to the toolkit, to help outline why social prescribing works.

Sunil Kochhar is a consultant pharmacist for the online patient information platform, www.dearPHARMACIST.info. He has over 20 years' hands-on experience of helping local communities improve their health and well-being. Within all his work, Sunil has demonstrated that marketing is an essential part of gaining public engagement to enhance their health and wellbeing.

This is a short episode to introduce you to the structure of future episodes. I talk about the inspiration behind SPPA.

This is to give you an understanding of the podcast ambition to educate the Health & Social Care sector on Social Prescribing benefit.