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The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare has partnered with The Wildlife Trusts and the RSPB to call for a new Nature and Wellbeing Act. The Act would put nature at the heart of how decisions are made about health, housing and other development, education, economic growth, flood resilience and every community. Multiple studies show that people who have a connection with the natural environment stay healthier and recover from illness more quickly than those who are isolated from nature, which is the whole rationale behind CSH’s NHS Forest programme.

Parks are potentially under threat if their funding is cut. www.hlf.org.uk/state-uk-public-parks. The report makes a number of recommendations including:

Thanks to all who entered an award for the NHS Forest conference 2014. Below is a list of the winners and those who were highly commended. More details available soon.

Best Community Project
Winner: Cirencester Hospital, Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust
Highly Commended: Broomfield Hospital, Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust

The NHS Forest has been shortlisted for an HSJ award in the "Improving Environmental and Social Sustainability Category". With over 1300 entries this year we are very pleased to have got through the first round. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the dedicated staff working at our 130 NHS Forest sites who have helped make this project such a success!