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Green Health and Access West Wales - GPs and Health Professionals
Green Health and Access West Wales - Health Care Professionals
The Green Health and Access Project, funded by Enabling Natural Resources and Wellbeing in Wales (ENRaW) is a one-year pilot project investigating current greenspace provision for local communities. It also explores how to support providers of green health initiatives to promote best practice and enable them to work more effectively with the health sector. It aims to raise the profile of social prescribing to ‘nature-based health care’ by building strong partnerships between the healthcare and environmental sectors across Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire. As part of this pilot, we are keen to hear the views of health professionals. Please take five minutes to complete our attached questionnaire. Many thanks for your cooperation.
Definitions: What do we mean by Social Prescribing? 'Social prescribing provides a pathway to refer clients to non-clinical services, linking clients to support from within the community to promote their wellbeing, to encourage social inclusion, to promote self-care where appropriate and to build resilience within the community and for the individual’ (Social Prescribing in Bristol Working Group, 2012). GPs and other health workers can refer clients via social prescribing.
What do we mean by Green Health (or Green Care)? ‘Green care is an inclusive term for many ‘complex interventions’, such as outdoor walking groups, animal-assisted therapy, therapeutic horticulture and others. What links this diverse set of interventions is their use of nature and the natural environment as a framework in which to create these approaches’ (Greencare a Conceptual Framework, Sempik, Hine and Wilcox, 2010)
What do we mean by a Link worker or Community Connector? Link workers or community connectors connect people to community groups and statutory services for practical and emotional support.