Sport Birmingham is set to play a significant role in how the health sector across England supports adults to develop a more active lifestyle.
It has been selected as one of 39 organisations that will help design and test possible solutions so that the health sector, together with physical activity providers, can support those living with, or at risk of, a long-term health condition.
The Physical Activity for Health Pathways is an Active Partnerships National Organisation project. Move Consulting was selected by APNO to work in collaboration with them on this important project which seeks to develop pathways for physical activity in health and care systems. The project is funded by Sport England.
Sport Birmingham will now join one of five communities of practice to co-design information tools and guidance for the sector to help create the pathways.
Annie Holden, Strategic Lead for Health from Active Partnerships National Organisation said:
“Currently, one in four of us is living with multiple long-term health conditions. That statistic is set to rise to two thirds of us aged over 65 by 2035. We know that our health care systems are under pressure, yet physical activity could help prevent up to 40% of these conditions. Furthermore, a more active lifestyle could help to manage more than 20 of the most common physical and mental health conditions.
Working with a broad range of organisations will really help us to create pathways that work locally and we’re looking forward to driving ahead with Move Consulting and its research partner, Coventry University.”
The full list of the organisations involved in the communities of practice is as follows:
- Active Derbyshire
- Active Dorset
- Active Gloucestershire
- Active Hastings
- Active Kent and Medway
- Active Lancashire
- Move It or Lose It Ltd
- Active Oxfordshire
- Active Suffolk
- Active Together
- Amber Valley Borough Council
- Be Active
- Buckinghamshire Council
- Dorset Council
- Ealing Council
- EnergiseMe
- Energize S-T-W
- Get Berkshire Active
- GLL (Cumbria)
- GLL (South East London)
- Greater Manchester Moving
- Herts Sport and PA Parthersnip
- Horizon Rehabilitation
- Improving lives Plymouth
- Ipswich Borough Council
- Leamington Spa Primary Care Trust
- London Borough Waltham Forest Council
- Medway Council
- MSP
- MyTime Active
- North Lincolnshire Council
- Northamptonshire Sport
- Rise
- Rotherham United Community Trust
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Sport Birmingham
- Wesport
- Yorkshire Sport Foundation
- Active Surrey
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For more detail on the concept of Physical Activity for Health Pathways visit the Move Consulting website www.moveconsulting.co.uk/pathways
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To find out more about the collaboration between Move Consulting and the Active Partnerships National Organisation click here
To find out more about Sport Birmingham’s involvement, please contact Nicola English nicola.english@sportbirmingham.org