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Healing Environments - Dementia Garden at Airedale Hospital
Published by Mary on Thu, 2014-07-10 13:08

Airedale Hospital in Keighley, West Yorkshire was one of the NHS Forest's pilot sites in 2009 and has planted hundreds of trees. In 2013, the hospital received funding for a dementia ward that included a dementia garden as part of its overall design. Designed and built for under £10,000, it was widely supported within the hospital; the head gardener even did an elearning dementia course to inform his design of the garden.

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Report on using Mindfulness in Forests
Published by Mary on Fri, 2014-07-04 15:47

Spending time in forests and woodlands can have a significant positive impact on physical and mental health and wellbeing, a report commissioned by The Mersey Forest and compiled by Forestry Commission's Forest Research division, has found. It explores the health benefits associated with different forms of mindfulness in the forest, from the Japanese concept of forest-bathing to forest walking. You can access the full report on the Mersey Forest website.

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Win £200 for your NHS Forest project
Published by Mary on Thu, 2014-06-19 14:59

The NHS Forest 2014 Awards are now open with a brand new entry: Most Pioneering Use of Green Space by a Clinician. For a chance to win up to £400, and to find out how to enter visit the awards page.

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Lottery Funding for Green Health Route
Published by Mary on Tue, 2014-06-10 10:13

At the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, we are pleased to announce that we will be facilitating the setting up of a green health route in Marston, Oxford. As we spend our days highlighting all the fabulous projects on the NHS Forest sites, facilitating knowledge exchange through the website and the NHS Forest conference (book now for October!), it's great to be running a hands-on project ourselves.
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Come to the 2014 NHS Forest conference
Published by Mary on Thu, 2014-05-15 13:09

Come to our conference on October 7th, 2014 at Whittingham and Goosnargh Sports and Social Club in Whittingham, Lancashire. The theme is Creating Healing Environments and we will be showcasing and sharing best practice in this area through presentations and workshops. Our hosts are Lancashire Care, who will be showing us around their award-winning grow your own project in the afternoon. The cost is a very reasonable £30. We look forward to welcoming old and new faces from all sectors of healthcare. We will also be presenting five awards with potential prizes on offer of £400.
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Aintree hospital joins the NHS Forest planting 900 trees in their woodland
Published by sarah on Tue, 2014-05-06 10:49

Bluebell Woodland is a hospital-owned woodland which joined the NHS Forest in 2014 after planting 900 trees and starting a green gym on site. It features a five hectare woodland currently being improved by volunteers. The site is sandwiched between Aintree University NHS Trust Hospital and Altcourse Prison and forms part of the Communities Fazakerley Woods and Fields Nature Reserve. It is a vital part of the Liverpool green spaces mosaic and forms a link with other open spaces.
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Helping your NHS Forest to be used by all
Published by sarah on Wed, 2014-04-30 20:21

Here at the NHS Forest we are keen to involve staff, patients and the local community in using the green space created at each healthcare site. The Community Land Advisory Service can help sites that need advice on how to make land available for the local community and provide support with any issues that may arise.

The Community Land Advisory Service is operating across the UK and is able to help through
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Lancashire Care's innovative engagement ideas
Published by sarah on Tue, 2014-04-22 09:26

Lancashire Care joined the NHS Forest in 2013 starting up a Grow Your Own project and restoring an orchard at their Guild Park site. Since then the project has continued to go from strength to strength with projects throughout the year to engage staff, patients and the local community in planting and growning fruit and vegetables.
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NHS Forest registers over 36,000 trees
Published by sarah on Thu, 2014-04-17 09:31

Here at the NHS Forest we have been busy recording all the fantastic tree planting that our sites have been doing since the season started back in November 2013. Our tree counter has now reached 36,000 trees which is a great achievement. Many of the trees recorded were part of our 2@2 on NHS Sustainability Day with nearly 50 sites getting involved in planting and sites such as Lancashire Care and Airedale hospital planting over 300 trees.

A number of new sites joined the NHS Forest this year including:
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NHS Sustainability Day 2014 big success
Published by Mary on Mon, 2014-03-31 15:39

Nearly 500 trees were planted on 27th March around the country for the NHS Sustainability Day of Action. Those planting trees for the NHS Forest's 2@2 campaign included Prime Minister David Cameron and Sue Bailey, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists at the Warneford Hospital in Oxford and the NHS's Sustainable Development Unit, whose team planted a giant redwood.
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