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Health Prescriptions

Sarah Best

8th February 2019

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One strategy to help reduce the workload of GPs is to prescribe exercise and art classes according to NHS England.

However, NHS England are also appointing link workers that will also be able to help prescribe these activities also and it is argued that it will have a large impact not just on people's physical health but their mental wellbeing also.

This could be used for the Health unit.

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Sarah Best

Sarah is a passionate full-time Head of Sociology and Psychology and has worked in a variety in schools in the UK, and she is currently working in a British international school. She is keen to develop and boost the profile of both subjects.

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