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Obesity is the new smoking in terms of its impact on health and cost to the
national health service (NHS), according to the organisation's England chief
executive.
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23 Sep 2014
Dame Sarah Storey, triple gold medalist at this summer’s Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, has
been confirmed as one of the high profile speakers at this year’s ukActive National
Summit.
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27 Oct 2016
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.
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09 Mar 2016
Combining aerobic exercise with resistance training could prove to be the most
effective answer to the growing problem of teenage obesity, according to a new
study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.
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24 Sep 2014
Budget gym operator Xercise4Less has launched a £1 per month gym membership for a year for
NHS employees to help them stay fit.
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14 Dec 2016
Plans for a new £600m fund to improve the wellbeing of NHS workers must drive to the
root cause of lifestyle issues and focus on behaviour change if they are to really make a
difference.
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17 Mar 2016
ukactive is backing NHS proposals to create 10 “Healthy New Towns” that place physical
activity at the heart of community life.
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22 Aug 2017
Simon Stevens, CEO of NHS England, recently challenged the fitness industry to get involved in preventing lifestyle diseases
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Ukactive chair Tanni Grey-Thompson has made a passionate call for the government to finally
recognise the importance of physical activity and to include it at the "heart" of the UK's political
debate.
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12 Sep 2018
NHS plans to offer personal trainers and exercise classes to tackle Type 2 diabetes mark
an ‘exciting milestone’ for the fitness sector and a major opportunity to demonstrate its
potential to work in synergy with the medical profession.
news •
30 Mar 2016
Leisure centres and gyms have been urged to begin discussions with their local health
organisations in a bid to help tackle obesity among NHS staff.
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11 Nov 2016
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
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NHS England has today (1 March) announced plans to create 10 ‘healthy new towns’
across the country which will explore and test creative solutions for 21st century
healthcare challenges.
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01 Mar 2016
Gyms, health clubs, leisure centres and fitness studios in England are back in business today as
the one-month lockdown ends.
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02 Dec 2020
The British public has been under-reporting its daily calorie consumption, potentially misleading
policymakers to focus on wrong strategies – such as increasing physical activity levels – when
attempting to tackle the obesity epidemic.
news •
08 Aug 2016
To stem the tide of the growing
obesity epidemic, the sector must
raise more informed awareness and
better connect this complex health
issue with the personal realities of
individuals’ lives. Louise Park
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In the first of a two-part series on the evolution of ukactive, the organisation’s executive director Steven Ward looks at what’s changed over recent years
HCM issue 2 2017
ukactive strategy director Steven Ward considers what might be in store for the physical activity sector following the 2015 General Election
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The public health specialist talks to Kate Cracknell about his plans to get GPs in the UK routinely prescribing exercise
HCM issue 5 2017
This Warwickshire GP has launched a
virtual fitness club at his practice
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