In the third in our series of podcasts on social prescribing, GP and social prescribing champion Marie Anne Essam returns to tell us three powerful real-life patient stories in which a social prescription has changed a patient’s life; a carer who got his purpose back, a man with a housing problem who turned his life around and an anxious, reluctant patient who found the support she needed. Plus: guidance on the new link workers will shortly be issued to all primary care networks and Marie Anne gives us a sneak preview of what it will contain.