Are you recommending parkrun to patients?
parkruns are free community events that take place in parks and open spaces around Australia every Saturday throughout the year, coordinated entirely by volunteers. There are opportunities for all members of the community to get involved in their local event, whether by walking or running the 5km course, taking advantage of a wide range of volunteering opportunities available, or simply through spectating and socialising.
parkrun Australia has carried out a ‘social prescribing’ survey of almost 3,000 health professionals, with 69% revealing they are ‘prescribing’ parkrun to some of their patients for a wide variety of reasons. The overwhelming majority of those who aren’t signposting patients to parkrun have reported that they would like to be supported to do so.
The full results of the survey, and some patient and practitioner case studies, can be found here.