Anxiety, depression, loneliness, chronic pain or long-term health conditions, as well as cancer and dementia: these are some of the pathologies that could benefit from ‘Social Prescribing’, that is ...

"Social prescribing" is a wellness trend where doctors write fewer medication prescriptions and recommend nature and ...

For more than 30 years, Frank Frost, worked as a long-distance truck driver, ferrying industrial chemicals across the U.K. "I worked away from home six days a week, working up to 12-15 hours a day," ...

If you are like most, you haven't heard of social prescribing, and if you have, you aren't sure what it is. Social prescribing is an intervention healthcare professionals —such as doctors, nurses, and ...

Editor's note: The article has been updated with a quote from the Science Media Centre. Despite becoming an integral part of British primary care, there is only limited and inconsistent evidence on ...

Imagine a world where the remedy for loneliness, stress or even mild depression isn't found in a pill bottle but in a local knitting circle, a community garden or a volunteer project. This is the ...

Doctors in England refer more than one million patients every year to gardening clubs, music groups, housing support, and other non-medical activities to boost their wellbeing, a new analysis has ...

Bridget Kiely received funding from the Health Research Board Ireland to carry out this research. Susan Smith receives funding from the Health Research Board of Ireland and this work was supported ...