Healing power of nature

IT HAS long been accepted wisdom that access to nature brings with it wellbeing and better mental health – and now it’s official.

As part of a programme of “green recovery” from the coronavirus and the ill-effects of long-term confinement, a £4million pilot scheme backed by Environment Secretary George Eustice has proposed prescribing trips to the countryside to help patients’ mental health.

Obvious? Perhaps, but sometimes the simplest of ideas are the best.