Queen’s Nurse helps develop a Wellbeing Garden

A Queen’s Nurse has secured funding to create a wellbeing garden at her surgery in Lancashire.

Corrie Llewellyn, of New Longton Surgery, has secured funding from the Queen’s Nursing Institute and National Garden Scheme, under the NGS Elsie Wagg Scholarship initiative, to fund the garden at her practice.

Corrie, who is working on the project with her colleague Lindsey Whiteley, said: “Our surgery team wanted something that would bring the staff, patients and local community together.

“The wellbeing garden will enable the nurses, social prescriber and clinical pharmacist and other allied health professionals to host a variety of different clinics and wellbeing activities throughout the year, including mindfulness, reducing isolation and loneliness and raising money for health charities.

“There is real scope as nurses to provide some innovative group clinics in the garden space that will promote health, meeting local health needs and increase preventative wellbeing and self care.”

Their aim is for the scheme to be up and running in Spring 2024.

Corrie added: “There is a real opportunity for this to form a blueprint for other organisations in Primary Care.

“Introducing green spaces into surgeries aligns with the local and national green agenda and promotes sustainability for the future.”