- Thursday, April 18, 2024
By: Keerthi Mohan
by Nadeem Badshah A DANCE a day to a Bollywood song keeps the doctor away. This is the result of a pilot scheme where a jig to Indian film hits are being prescribed on the NHS which has seen GPs’ workloads reduced. The project has seen people sent to dance classes to address non-medical issues such as loneliness. Thirty-seven GPs practices in Croydon, south London, have joined the scheme – known as community prescribing – since last year which also includes boxing lessons, gardening and playing bingo. And medics have hailed the scheme and have called for belly dancing and…
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