Physical Activity Clinical Champions

A national network of expert Physical Activity Clinical Champions is delivering tailored, peer-to-peer 1-3 hour training sessions to groups of healthcare professionals at a time and location to suit local need e.g. protected learning time.

Attending this training provides the opportunity to:

Access evidence-based resources proven to increase knowledge and confidence, and support clinical practice in line with guidance.
Improve management of patients with 30+ long-term conditions (e.g. CVD, Type 2 Diabetes, depression).
Help reduce service demand and costs i.e. the £0.9bn annual cost to the NHS associated with insufficient physical activity.

The training covers the following:

Definitions, guidelines and evidence base for physical activity and inactivity.
The importance of physical activity for prevention and management of disease.
Integrating physical activity and brief interventions into clinical practice.
Utilising the behaviour change model to apply very brief interventions into clinical practice.

To arrange your FREE Physical Activity Clinical Champion training session (Public Health England and Sport England funded, min 15 people), please contact us using the details below.

Reference: Sport England and Public Health England, Physical Activity in Clinical Care

Clinical Champions Information Flier (PDF, 426 Kb)

For more information please contact:

Active Together

Address: SportPark, Loughborough University, 3 Oakwood Drive, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3QF
Telephone: 01509 467500
Email: info@active-together.org
Website: http://www.active-together.org

Moving Healthcare Professionals

Moving Healthcare Professionals is a national partnership programme between Public Health England and Sport England. It is designed to support healthcare professionals to promote physical activity to their patients.

The Moving Healthcare Professionals Programme is making a difference in a few ways, but Active Together are supporting two key elements locally:

1. Training existing healthcare professionals - supporting the coordination of practical peer-to-peer training to existing (or trainee) healthcare professionals on physical activity and how to incorporate this advice into practice (for more information about how to access training for your organisation, please see below).

2. Development of resources - Moving Medicine is an evidence-based healthcare professional physical activity resource that provides literature on the importance of physical activity in the management and prevention of disease and advice on how to bring up conversations about physical activity that are tailored to the patient. Please click on the link below for a local guide to this resource.

Reference: Sport England, Moving Healthcare Professionals

Why?

1 in 4 patients would be more active if advised by a GP or nurse
Healthcare professionals can reach a large proportion of the population (1 in 10 people visit their GP every 2 weeks)
Those working in the healthcare profession are seen as a trusted source of advice, what they say about physical activity can have a big impact on activity levels
Those who regularly engage with healthcare professionals (often those with or at risk of long-term health conditions) are more likely to be inactive