How Green Social Prescribing Could Save Your Parks Service
Green Social Prescribing (GSP) offers the opportunity to link the health benefits of parks to those who would most gain by spending time in a park. This benefits:
The patient/resident – a prescription for nature is better than one you take
to the chemistThe NHS – because it saves money
The GP – whose workload is cut
Deliverer of activities – who has more participants and a strengthened case for funding and support for the activity
The park – which has more users, whose health is being improved
The parks service – which can make the case for parks to the health sector and the council, and secure/protect funding
To find out more about the potential, benefits and processes of Green Social Prescribing. Read the full essay.
June 2022
By John Thorne, Parks for Health Partnership Manager, Camden and Islington.