Glenfield Hospital's Secret Garden
Last week, I was fortunate enough to attend this year's NHS Forest Conference . It was held online and at its peak had over 250 NHS staff participating from across the country. Quite impressive. I found Karen James' presentation on the secret garden at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, United Kingdom, the most inspiring. She discovered the garden by mistake out a window, forgotten, abandoned, and overgrown. Then, without a budget, Karen and countless colleagues, volunteers, and benefactors worked to resurrect it from beneath the bramble thicket. Now, this no-longer-secret garden is used by hospital staff and patients alike as a sanctuary away from the stresses of the wards, a place of healing as every hospital should be. I hope you enjoy this inspiring story as much as I do. I'll now let it speak for itself.