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.