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Nature-Based Interventions and Long-Term Conditions

December 2025

Edge Hill University and The National Academy for Social Prescribing have published The Role of Nature-Based Interventions in Supporting Long-Term Conditions through Green Social Prescribing: a systematic evidence review.

The review focuses on how nature-based projects – like walking schemes, community gardening, green gyms and outdoor arts and cultural programmes – can support people living with mental health problems, cancer, neurological conditions and chronic pain, among other conditions. 

The report suggests that nature-based interventions can:

  • help people to feel calmer, happier, less anxious or depressed, and that they can help to reduce fatigue and discomfort.
  • lead to economic benefits and take pressure off the wider health system. 
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