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When many, including the World Health Organisation (2025), have argued that we are facing a biodiversity crisis alongside the climate crisis that has huge implications for our health we need radical solutions and ideas to face this uncertain future. In the UK the NHS offers a unique opportunity to lead on creative nature recovery solutions given the sheer size of its estate; according to recent blog for NHS England (Corben, 2024), the current estate in total spans 25 million m2 or over 3500 football pitches. Although there are many limitations and challenges with the current estate, as historians we argue that we could look to the past to help find ambitious responses to the challenges facing us. Here we will focus on hospital estates (broadly conceived to include sanatoria and other residential institutions), which historically have facilitated a much closer relationship with nature to help find a path to the future.
Author(s): Bates V, Hickman C
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: British Journal of Healthcare Management
Year: 2026
Volume: 32
Issue: 4
Pages: 1-4
Print publication date: 02/04/2026
Online publication date: 06/04/2026
Acceptance date: 21/08/2025
Date deposited: 12/11/2025
ISSN (print): 1358-0574
ISSN (electronic): 1759-7382
Publisher: MA Healthcare Ltd.
URL: https://doi.org/10.12968/bjhc.2025.0104
DOI: 10.12968/bjhc.2025.0104
ePrints DOI: 10.57711/3d7j-xq20
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