- Description
- Provides information for health care providers to reduce barriers for their patients to access nature for their health and wellbeing.
Service includes:
- information on accessing nature prescription for providers and patients
- free or discounted access to green spaces, such as forests and parks, and blue spaces, such as lakes and rivers, for patients
- provides a unique code to healthcare providers
- resources and information on the effects of nature and wellbeing
Key Provider: licensed health care providers; general practitioners, physicians, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, psychologists - Eligibility
- No, Service targeted to:
- licensed health care providers
- individuals with respitory disease, cardiovascular disease, anxiety, depression
- individuals with barriers to access nature
- Application Process
- Service Access: Professional Referral Required, To access service:
for providers
- register on website to access unique provider code
- see website for instructions on prescribing and logging nature prescriptions
- contact healthcare provider for referral then register on website
- need a prescription for nature pass
Referral Process: Yes,To access service:
- contact health care provider to be registered with PaRx
- no self-referrals
- see website for details
Waiting Period: No,
- Telephone
- 604-343-3975
- Web Site
- https://www.parkprescriptions.ca
- parx@bcparksfoundation.ca
- Languages
- English; French
- Fees
- Fee: No
Fee Reduction: No
Membership Fee: No - Documents Required
To access service:
- contact health care provider to be registered with PaRx
- no self-referrals
- see website for details
- Accessibility
- Wheelchair access: N/A -
Other disabled access: N/A - - Topic(s)
- Agency Information
- View Agency Profile
- Last Verified On
- November 29, 2023
