Many of our Moray Wellbeing Hub Champions are passionate about nature based wellbeing and therapy.
This news comes to us via CHeX about NHS Lothian but if you are keen to put forward the nature wellbeing agenda in Moray then get in touch with us.
We are keen to support colleagues in Moray who focus on this work to collaborate and use life experiences of challenges at the core.
“A dose of greenspace could be just what the doctor ordered”
NHS Lothian, Edinburgh & Lothians Health Foundation and greenspace scotland have published Scotland’s first health board-led Green Health Strategy.
Greenspace is often described as ‘our natural health service’, with a growing body of research evidence showing its positive benefits for physical and mental health and wellbeing.
The Edinburgh and Lothians Greenspace and Health Strategic Framework was prepared by greenspace scotland, on behalf of NHS Lothian and funded by Edinburgh & Lothians Health Foundation.
The strategy aims to fully realise the potential of the NHS Outdoor Estate and community greenspaces as a community health asset benefiting patients, visitors, staff and communities. It covers a range of Green Health activities, including community and therapeutic gardening, health walks, green prescriptions, Branching Out and Green Gyms, as well as greening the NHS outdoor estate and encouraging access to greenspace close to where people live.
More here.
