This is why sport, gardening and friendship could be just what the doctor ordered for residents in Soith Ribble
That means locals could be pointed in the direction of a range of community and voluntary groups - including those offering arts activities, cookery, friendship and healthy eating advice.
“[Social prescribing] is an essential and integral part of the health and wellbeing agenda. Once it’s up and operating, it will also benefit the NHS in terms of costs…because we would hope that people, rather than having to access medical services [like] GPs, [can be supported] to get through whatever difficulties they are experiencing at a particular time,” Cllr Titherington said.
However, Labour council leader Paul Foster said that there were “chronic” issues facing some locals, which the council had to address.“We must get away from this [notion of] ‘It's not our statutory duty, so why are we bothering?’ It’s exactly because it's not our statutory duty - and our community needs us - that we should be bothering,” Cllr Foster said.
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