This document reviews the need for the NHS to change and what the future will look like with regards to the relationship between patients and communities. The need to change involves addressing 3 gaps; the health and wellbeing gap, care and quality gap and the funding and efficiency gap. The former is the most relevant to the physical activity sector...
This report explores the current public health landscape in England and how the sport, recreation and physical activity sector can work alongside health to get more people active, more often. It sets out a number of key policy recommendations to ensure that both national and local strategies and practice encourage and facilitate joined-up working to help more people to be...
This report provides the first detailed analysis of physical inactivity, both at a national and local level. It examines the rate of inactivity in each top tier local authority and analyses its relationship with premature mortality, cost and spend, leisure facilities and green spaces. In the past, promoting the benefits of physical activity has often been grouped with obesity, clouding the...
These guidelines are issued by the four Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. They draw on global evidence for the health benefits people can achieve by taking regular physical activity throughout their lives. Regular physical activity can reduce the risk of many chronic conditions including coronary heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, cancer, obesity, mental...
The London 2012 Olympic Games resulted in record success for Team GB athletes across a large range of sports. It also brought into sharp focus the high proportion of English competitors who had been educated in independent schools. To determine whether this was indicative of wider overrepresentation of independent schools in elite sport, Ofsted commissioned external research into the educational background of...
The purpose of this document is to provide physical activity practitioners, commissioners and policy makers with the key facts to help them build an economic argument for the need to decrease levels of physical inactivity within the population. This evidence briefing summarises the key facts on the total cost of disease to the NHS, the cost of treating individual cases with specific diseases...
This dataset presents Sport England Active People Survey data from APS 1 (2005/6) through to APS 9 (2014/15). Data is broken down by: - Total participation rate at least once a week for a minimum 30 minutes - Total participation rate at least three times a week for a minimum of 30 minutes - Total physical activity rate by inactives, insufficiently actives and...
This is the final report of a two year study, commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE) and carried out by NatCen Social Research, to investigate the use and the perceived impacts of the PE and sport premium in primary schools across England. It presents the main findings from two surveys of primary schools drawing on qualitative findings from tracker...
This report provides a review of the changes to cycling provision and participation in London over the last three years. Data is provided by Transport for London which results in this document being a good starting point for those looking to evidence the benefits of cycling on physical activity and health.