Come spring, the first thing that patients see as they walk into the College Surgery in Cullompton, Devon, are the green shoots of a raised-bed vegetable garden beside a physic garden full of healing herbs. Dr Michael Dixon explains that they are tended by the surgery’s gardening club, one of the social prescribing initiatives set up by the dozen GP partners in the practice and run by volunteers.
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