Healthcare meets fitness
Doctors are prescribing gyms instead of pills.
NHS England's social-prescribing programme has grown 15× in five years. Patients with loneliness, anxiety, or early-stage metabolic disease now get referred to movement groups and community spaces.
Rx — Social Prescribing Referrals
15× growth in five years. Healthcare systems under financial pressure are quietly redefining what counts as medicine. Gyms, walking groups, community centres — the places that create belonging — are becoming recognised treatments for isolation, anxiety, and chronic disease.
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