Green Social Prescribing

Welcome to Deep Green – a toolkit for Green Social Prescribing. It is designed to help GPs and other health and social-care practitioners working in primary care to prescribe outdoor, nature-based activities.

This toolkit provides support, information and evidence about Green Social Prescribing. It can be used by practitioners looking for help to add or expand Green Social Prescribing in their practice. It can also be used for people interested in the subject more generally.

Deep Green is part of project looking at issues that people aged over 50 and living in deprived areas of Edinburgh and Midlothian face in accessing nature-based prescriptions. To do this we are working with a small number of medical practices around Edinburgh throughout 2025 to better understand what help they need.

You can browse the toolkit using the tabs at the top. If you are new here, we suggest trying one or more of the following links:

To learn more about Green Social Prescribing: click here

If you’re a health care professional who wants to find out more about how to use Green Social Prescribing in your practice: click here

To find out more about the project behind Deep Green: click here