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Awarding body Active IQ has given its backing to two clinically-focused qualifications
offered by Health and Fitness Education.
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24 Apr 2017
Manchester Public Health Development Service has teamed up with Manchester City Council and Manchester City Football Club to get local residents active.
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31 Jan 2007
The first phase of a £1.1m expansion of Roefield Leisure Centre in Clitheroe, Lancashire, could be complete as early as August, adding a new fitness suite to the site.
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13 Jun 2008
Nuffield Health has launched a series of bespoke health assessments for UK businesses as
it looks to
help tackle work-related illness.
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10 May 2017
As the NHS opens its door to collaboration, the fitness sector must show how its services can deliver on the public health agenda, says Kate Cracknell
HCM issue 1 2017
This personal trainer works on a
‘pay what you can’ basis, allowing
him to reach those most in need
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TV’s Dr Chris Van Tulleken explains the need to make people realise that good health doesn’t come from pills
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Doctors in the UK are being urged to adopt “green prescriptions” similar to those which
have helped increase activity levels in New Zealand.
news •
07 Sep 2016
Black Eyed Peas superstar will.i.am is poised to make a surprise assault on the
burgeoning wearable tech market with a “smart cuff” featuring fitness tracking
software.
news •
24 Oct 2014
Nuffield Health has completed a five-year refinancing package with NatWest, HSBC, Barclays and Santander UK. KPMG UK advised on the deal which also
included a longer-term financing solution for ten hospital sites with Song Capital, in partnership with Alpha Real Capital.
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27 Oct 2022
Whoop has raised US$200m in a Series F funding round, resulting in the tech start-up
being valued
at US$3.6bn.
news •
01 Sep 2021
SkillsActive and the Register of exercise Professionals (REPs) have begun the first stage of a review of qualifications structures for those exercise professionals who work with people with specialist needs including a survey of more than 2,000 members to assess current working practices.
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14 Apr 2008
Sheffield based health and wellbeing providers Westfield Health and SIV have revealed a
collaborative new membership scheme that offers mental health support to its clients.
news •
06 Jul 2018
Public Health England (PHE) is recruiting more clinical champions as part of its drive to
improve the health and wellbeing of people.
news •
30 Aug 2016
Camden Council is set to open a new 7,000sq m (76,000sq ft) leisure centre next spring, as part of its £85m Swiss Cottage redevelopment scheme.
news •
01 Nov 2005
Dance, yoga and Pilates classes will be made available to NHS staff as part of a new
£600m fund designed to ensure Europe’s largest single workforce is fit for purpose.
news •
09 Mar 2016
Research from Sport England shows physical activity in England is worth £85.5bn each year in economic impact
HCM issue 8 2020
A health programme that prescribes exercise as medicine has helped more than 1,700
patients in Essex to become physically active.
news •
06 Sep 2017
The NHS must make use of its funding lifeline in George Osborne’s Spending Review to
invest in physical activity initiatives that will help safeguard its future, according to
ukactive executive director Steven Ward.
news •
26 Nov 2015
A leading leisure industry medical advisor has said doctors need to ditch
concerns about hurting obese patients’ feelings and be more proactive in
prescribing exercise and weight management programmes.
news •
11 Apr 2014
A vast majority of doctors in England are “unfamiliar” with the recommended levels of
physical
activity – resulting in up to 72 per cent of GPs never discussing the benefits of prescribed
exercise with patients.
news •
04 Sep 2017
The failure of GPs to properly use the NHS Quality and Outcomes Framework
(QOF) - the government's voluntary incentive scheme - will result in a dramatic
slimming down of the service in 2014.
news •
22 Nov 2013
Around 12,000 cases of cancer each year are caused by people being
overweight or obese, according to a new study published in the Lancet medical
journal.
news •
14 Aug 2014
One year after it was added for the treatment of hypertension, physical activity
is set to be dropped from the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) in April.
news •
27 Feb 2014
The ukactive Research Institute has ‘come of age’ according to ukactive operations
director Geraldine Tuck, who will today (11 February) announce a major breakthrough in
its academic endeavours.
news •
11 Feb 2016
Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock has published a new technology masterplan for the
National Health Service (NHS), designed to transform it into the "most advanced health and care
system in the world".
news •
18 Oct 2018
An NHS body has told obese patients to lose weight or face delays in having non-emergency
surgery, arguing that eating healthily and taking exercise can make a ‘real difference’ to the
results of operations.
news •
29 Nov 2016
A new gym funded by the South Staffordshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) has opened at the dual-use Friary Grange Leisure Centre in Lichfield, Staffordshire.
news •
30 May 2008
Living in an urban area with green spaces has a better impact on mid to long-
term mental wellbeing than winning the lottery, a study has suggested.
news •
14 Jan 2014
ukactive CEO David Stalker outlines plans to drive the skills agenda back to the top of the priority list
HCM issue 3 2015
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Nuffield Health has worked with ServiceSport UK for more than ten
years, ensuring the equipment in its clubs is commercially optimised
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Consumers’ growing love of strength training is to be welcomed, as this long-neglected modality has a renaissance, however, it’s vital we continue to make the case for cardio
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What needs to happen to integrate physical activity with
healthcare? Leaders in the sector share their thoughts
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Speaking on the LIFTS podcast recently, Xponential Fitness CEO Anthony Geisler said participation in studio cycling is down globally. Kath Hudson decided to investigate
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When a hefty round of investment
coincided with the pandemic, the
CEO of Midtown Athletic Clubs
feared the company – founded by
his grandfather – would go down
on his watch. He talks to Kath
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