Prescribing Fruit and Veg – A New Model for the NHS?

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A pilot public health scheme in south east London is prescribing fresh fruit & veg to people with chronic disease and mental health conditions. Sheila Dillon meets Dr Chi-Chi Ekhator, an NHS GP and lead at the A.T Beacon Project, to hear how the prescriptions are working, and how it’s a part of their mission to bring healthcare out of GP surgeries and into the heart of Lambeth’s most hard-to-reach communities.

Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced by Sophie Anton for BBC Audio in Bristol

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0:44.5	Hello, I'm Sheila Dylan with a new edition of the food program about something radical
0:50.2	and simple, a fresh minted model of health care, a future for the NHS with fruit and
0:57.0	veg on prescription.
0:59.1	There's optimism in here and there's not a lot of that about.
1:02.6	So I hope you find it stimulating and well,
1:06.3	hopeful.
1:07.3	How much could the NHS save?
1:10.7	And how much happier and healthier could we be if preventing disease was our priority.
1:17.0	Because most patients now walking through a GP's door are suffering from illnesses linked to how they live and eat. What if we could change that?
1:26.7	Those are the big questions for this week's food programme and what I was thinking about
1:31.2	when I found myself in Lambeth in South London.
1:34.3	We're on Stretum High Road as you can hear. It's extremely busy. There's a barber shop
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