Study: 'Green prescribing' could save more than £635m a year

Stuart Stone
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Wildlife Trusts calls on government to integrate 'green prescribing' into community health and social care services, as study predicts nature-based programmes could steer a million people away from crisis-hit NHS

Nature-based health and wellbeing programmes - colloquially known as "green prescribing" - could deliver economic gains of over £635m a year and ease pressure on a struggling NHS, according to a new report...

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