Dr Hannah Armitt @drhannaha

In 2020 the Humber, Coast and Vale Integrated Care System secured £500,000 of funding to run a green social prescribing test and learn site in the region.

The programme began in April 2021 with funding secured until end of March 2023 and is set up specifically to explore how green social prescribing may prevent and tackle mental ill-health.

This two-year project is being supported by multiple partners across the health system, including the Department of Health and Social Care, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Natural England, NHS England & NHS Improvement, Sport England, the Office of Health Disparities and the National Academy of Social Prescribing.

HEY Smile Foundation (a charity working across the key determinants of health) is delivering the programme in the region on behalf of the Humber, Coast and Vale Care Partnership. Humber, Coast and Vale consists of six places; Vale of York, Hull, East Riding, North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire and North Yorkshire.