Parkrun & the NHS: a mutual cause for celebration

The free run celebrated the NHS’s 70th birthday this weekend. But, argues Jack Dickenson, it is the event itself that could provide the elusive public health intervention we so badly needJust a normal Saturday morning on Tooting Common: birds tweeting, trees wafting in the summer breeze, dogs scampering around. Suddenly, as the clock strikes nine, the reverie is broken by a storm of runners – first a couple, then the chasing pack of 10, then ever more streaming past – more than