GPs to prescribe walking and cycling in bid to ease burden on NHS

GPs to prescribe walking and cycling in bid to ease burden on NHS GPs around England are to prescribe patients activities such as walking or cycling in a bid to ease the burden on the NHS by improving mental and physical health.

The £12.7m trial, which was announced by the Department for Transport and will begin this year, is part of a wider movement of “social prescribing”, an approach already used in the NHS, in which patients are referred for non-medical activities. The Guardian

See also:

• Walking, wheeling and cycling to be offered on prescription in nationwide trial Department of Health and Social Care