The latest video in the ‘Swimming as Medicine’ series, which focuses on nursing staff, has been launched by Swim England.
The aim of this video is to further highlight to nursing staff and other healthcare professionals, just how powerful being active in water can be for individuals with complex health problems and rehabilitation needs.
As a whole, the Swimming as Medicine series has been created to encourage those healthcare professionals to consider recommending swimming and aquatic activity to their patients as an effective way of improving health and wellbeing.
Swimming and aquatic activity can offer significant benefits to the health and wellbeing of individuals. Nursing staff can make a real difference by referring and signposting to services and communities, supporting people to live longer and healthier lives.
This view is highlighted by Dr Nichola Ashby, the UK Deputy Chief Nurse at the Royal College of Nursing, in a short film launched by Swim England to encourage more nursing staff and other healthcare professionals to ask, suggest and equip their patients to experience the benefits of being active in water.
The third in the national governing body’s Swimming as Medicine series, the film follows two others which were launched last year, filmed in conjunction with the Royal College of GPs and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.
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