Fit for the Future: The Health Value of Wellbeing and Leisure Services
- Date Published
- May 2022
- Publisher(s)
- District Council's Network
- Document Type
- Report
- More Info
- https://districtcouncils.info/reports/fit-for-the-future-the-health-value-of-wellbeing-and-leisure-services/
- Themes
- Economic Impact, Health & Wellbeing*, Infrastructure & Travel*, Physical Activity, Strategy & Policy
- Sub Themes
- Mental Health, Physical Health, Facilities, Planning
- Geographic Area
- National
- Lifestages
- Early Years, Children & Young People, Adults, Older Adults
The report makes a compelling case for the critical role that the wellbeing and leisure services provided by DCN member councils can play in tackling health inequalities.
The report demonstrates that engagement of just over 1 million of the inactive population of England in a prescribed leisure services programme would provide the following impacts over a 10-year period:
- Almost 45,000 diseases avoided
- A direct saving to the NHS of £314 million for the cost of treatment of those diseases
- 70,000 Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALY) gained (a year of life in perfect health is equal to one QALY)
- This QALY gain has a health value of £1 billion and economic value of £4.2 billion
- A 3.7 year reduction in the healthy life expectancy gap
