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The Joint Consultative Forum has released the latest standards for Exercise Referral, which will now enter a 10-week consultation process.
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30 Jun 2011
A £4m exercise referral programme which uses the Register of Exercise Professionals’ (REPs) level 3 membership as its benchmark of quality has been launched by the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG).
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30 Oct 2006
The Wright Foundation is to introduce seven advanced courses in key areas of exercise referral in January 2005.
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07 Dec 2004
Ofqual-approved accreditation body Active IQ has announced the launch of new
eLearning and online resources in support of its Level 3 Certificate in Exercise
Referral.
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05 Oct 2011
ukactive has called for the physical activity sector to increase the amount of evidence it shares on
exercise referral schemes. The industry body said that by sharing more evidence, the sector can
study outcomes and "better understand why some schemes are more effective than others". As a
result, the sector would be able to create better schemes, maximise its contribution to the NHS and
create further opportunities for collaboration.
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01 Feb 2019
Industry body, ukactive, has published new data from the National ReferAll Database (NRD) – the
UK’s first open access database for exercise referral schemes.
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01 Jun 2021
A campaign has got underway to encourage GPs to prescribe exercise for depression instead of drugs.
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07 Apr 2005
Quest has launched an Exercise Referral Standard which will enable operators to transact more effectively with the medical profession, as Abi Harris explains
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Forty-three Aquaterra Leisure fitness staff were presented with certificates at prizegiving ceremonies in recognition of successfully passing Level 3 qualifications in personal training and exercise on referral.
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07 Sep 2010
The improvements in health and wellbeing associated with exercise referral schemes aren’t as large
as hoped, according to a new study.
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02 Dec 2019
Bury St. Edmunds Leisure Centre in Suffolk has become the first facility in the UK to be awarded a
new quality standard for exercise referral schemes.
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11 Feb 2019
New research is being carried out to determine the extent of how exercise referrals can
change behaviour and boost levels of physical activity.
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06 Oct 2016
A group of the UK’s leading exercise referral experts have expressed concern at
the initial low uptake of such referrals, offering recommendations to improve the
situation in a new white paper.
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07 Oct 2014
Advanced instructors at level 3 on the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) who are responsible for designing and delivering structured and tailored physical activity programmes for referred patients/clients, or assigning them to an appropriate physical activity, must have a range of knowledge and skills specific to the referral process, specified medical conditions and relevant health risk factors related to physical activity participation.
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10 Jan 2006
Refer-all, the software solutions specialist for exercise referrals, has added two new staff
member to its customer support and integration teams.
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24 Aug 2015
Minister for health John Hutton has praised Southwark’s exercise referral scheme as a wonderful example of a partnership approach to health.
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23 Feb 2005
Software provider Refer-all, which specialises in solutions to enhance the
efficiency of exercise referrals from GP to leisure provider, has launched a new
foundation designed to support leisure providers as they seek to work more
closely with local authorities in the area of public health.
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22 Jul 2014
Some obese and inactive NHS patients are unable to access public health initiatives
designed to improve their wellbeing because budget cuts are causing these services to be
rationed, according to the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH).
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20 Jul 2015
PayasUgym, the online gym pass provider, is trialling a programme that will see private
gyms receive GP-referred patients and help tackle the UK’s inactivity epidemic.
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20 Feb 2015
A new training course designed to equip exercise professionals with the behaviour change
skills needed to get inactive people moving is being delivered to Everyone Active’s
exercise referral specialists.
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27 May 2015
Central YMCA has teamed up with Westminster NHS in London to enhance an exercise referral scheme which has been in place since 2003.
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05 May 2009
Older patients and those with heart conditions are more likely to take up and
complete exercise upon referral programmes than younger or obese patients,
according to a new UK study presented at the British Science Festival in
Newcastle.
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11 Sep 2013
A Plymouth-led research team has been awarded £1.3m in funding to
investigate how a web-based exercise coaching tool could benefit people who
are prescribed exercise by their GPs.
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19 Sep 2014
The Register of Exercise Professionals has published an information guide on qualifications and training in exercise referrals which is available through its website.
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09 Feb 2006
Dearne Valley Leisure Centre in South Yorkshire has completed a £150,000 redevelopment of its fitness facilities.
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05 Feb 2008
What do health and fitness providers need to know before committing to an exercise referral scheme? We offer an overview of the key points to consider
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The Chief Medical Officer for Wales has recently published guidelines for exercise referral schemes, stating that they must only be made to instructors who are registered with the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) at level 3 as an Advanced Instructor and with qualifications for working with specialist populations.
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09 Feb 2006
Oldham Community Leisure (OCL) has appointed two new health and physical
activity development officers to work within their health and wellbeing team.
The officers will be tasked with operating two of OCL’s outreach schemes.
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05 Jun 2014
Yate Leisure is one of the largest sites in Circadian Trust’s
portfolio, with around 4,000 members. Ben Beasley, director
of commercial development, explains why they were an early
adopter of Technogym Biocircuit, and how the offer has evolved
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As more people join clubs to support their mental
health, fitness professionals need to be empowered to
take a holistic approach. Kath Hudson shares useful
tools discussed at the ACE summit on mental health
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Basic-Fit – which has been scaling rapidly across Europe –
is considering franchising to ramp up growth further afield
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As health club operators move to incorporate recovery into their
offerings to meet growing consumer demand, Steph Eaves takes a
look at what cryotherapy and ice bathing can add to the equation
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New research has found BMI to be a highly inaccurate measure of childhood obesity, leading current thinking and policy based on it into question
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