TY - JOUR T1 - Gardening for health: a regular dose of gardening JF - Clinical Medicine JO - Clin Med SP - 201 LP - 205 DO - 10.7861/clinmedicine.18-3-201 VL - 18 IS - 3 AU - Richard Thompson Y1 - 2018/06/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/18/3/201.abstract N2 - There is increasing evidence that exposure to plants and green space, and particularly to gardening, is beneficial to mental and physical health, and so could reduce the pressure on NHS services. Health professionals should therefore encourage their patients to make use of green space and to work in gardens, and should pressure local authorities to increase open spaces and the number of trees, thus also helping to counteract air pollution and climate change. ER -