Exercise referral schemes, where GPs or another member of Primary Care team are able to refer selected patients to exercise specialist often at local gyms and other sports centres, have been part of ...

Objective To assess the effectiveness of a primary care referral scheme on increasing physical activity at 1 year from referral. Design Two-group randomized controlled trial recruiting primary care ...

The Public Health Advisory Committee (PHAC) identified a number of gaps in the evidence related to the programmes under examination based on an assessment of the evidence, stakeholder process and ...

Exercise referral schemes are associated with many improvements in health and wellbeing, but the changes aren't as large as hoped, finds an analysis of outcomes data published online in the Journal of ...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is in the process of updating its recommendations on exercise referral schemes as part of the partial update of public health guidance - ...

NHS exercise referral scheme that give overweight patients discounted or even free access to gym sessions and fitness classes are wasting valuable funds, scientists claim. Researchers from the ...

There is no convincing evidence that exercise referral schemes are effective and the NHS should consider scrapping them, a new study concludes. The large Health Technology Assessment meta-analysis ...

EXERCISE referral programmes are expanding in an east Durham community. Residents of Murton, who suffer from a range of medical conditions including obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and mild ...

COUNCIL-FUNDED gym sessions for people in County Durham are to be scrapped. The initiative allowed people to use gym facilities for free, providing a GP had referred them and included people who were ...

Exercise referral schemes are associated with many improvements in health and wellbeing, but the changes aren't as large as hoped, finds an analysis of outcomes data. Exercise referral schemes are ...