Speaker

Dr Lucy Loveday is a qualified GP and Senior NHS Educator. Currently Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Innovation & Performance at NHS England Southwest School of Primary Care. As a longstanding advocate for nature within the NHS, Lucy has a portfolio of roles and experience. Lucy is an Advisory Board member for the Cross-Government presenting and Tackling Mental Il-Health through Green Social Prescribing Project and Co-CEO of Resilient Young Minds CIC; a social enterprise responding to a set of interconnected challenges facing young people: poor mental health, increasing loneliness, and inequitable access to nature as a resource for wellbeing. Please join us for the launch of Resilient Young Minds on Monday 22nd June 2026  - To find out more; www.resilientyoungminds.org.uk

In 2019 Lucy launched the first ever RCGP endorsed Nature Immersion for GP's - featured in pulse; An immersion in nature - Pulse Today Lucy continues to deliver nature immersions for health care professionals on Dartmoor with Prof. David Peters. As recently published in The Journal of Holistic Healthcare winter edition (2025) Flourishing Spaces - British Association for Holistic Medicine & Health Care 

Previously an Acumen Fellow and also a Health Inequalities Fellow, Lucy combines her clinical experience with a deep and lifelong commitment to health equity and nature-based innovation in the context of systems change. 

Photo credits: Jay Williams, The Sunday Telegraph