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A walk in the park, on prescription
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By Penrose Health
A healthy environment and healthy people go together. So across our practices we are working to reduce our impact on the planet, with energy-saving lighting, recycling, a move towards paperless correspondence, and recycling inhalers. We are working towards the NHS Green Impact for Health award, and each site has a Green Health Champion.
We are also trying something a little different. Green prescriptions. Alongside, or sometimes instead of, medication, we encourage time outdoors for your wellbeing, such as a walk in Southwark Park or a visit to Surrey Docks Farm.
It will not suit every condition or every person. But for many of us, time outside, moving and away from a screen, is one of the simplest things that helps. Small changes, made together, add up.
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