social prescribing news
20 Apr 2026
A series of studies about the mental and physical benefits of sauna bathing has found
29 Aug 2025
The UK’s Health and Social Care Committee is actively looking at how physical activity can
13 May 2025
In a drive to target the hard-to-reach groups, Places Leisure has introduced a team of
25 Mar 2025
The national governing body for group exercise in the UK – EMD UK (Exercise, Movement
17 Mar 2025
The Soma Space, which uses a trauma-informed approach to getting people active, has been awarded
10 Mar 2025
Don’t wait for the government, or the NHS, to provide the solutions or the budget,
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
02 Jul 2024
The Global Wellness Institute (GWI) has released a new report emphasising the critical role of
Farrer tells government the physical activity sector is critical to fixing the UK’s sluggish economy
01 Feb 2024
Mike Farrar, chair of UK Active, has called on the UK government to deploy the
10 Sep 2023
Over 100 experts in health and wellbeing gathered in central London yesterday (Friday 8 September)
21 Mar 2023
Health and wellbeing should be at the heart of all government policymaking according to a
24 Jan 2023
The damaging effect of the energy crisis due to government inaction and the impact on
19 Jan 2023
In his first speech as chair at UK Active, Mike Farrar said the physical activity
Celebrating its milestone fifth anniversary, W3Fit EMEA returns in 2026 with an unmissable gathering of
14 Dec 2022
Sport England has released the Future of Public Sector Leisure report which looks at how
12 Jan 2022
The UK government should encourage – and make it easier – for doctors and other
29 Jul 2021
The Jorvik Group has launched a major global art project which will connect 14 cities
13 Jul 2021
A consultation on social prescribing and other similar health programmes will look to "uncover the
01 Jun 2021
ukactive has published new data from the National ReferAll Database (NRD) – the UK’s first
03 Jan 2021
An international panel of experts have examined how social prescribing can play a role in
One of the biggest mistakes operators in the fitness industry still make is advertising almost
25 Nov 2020
Up to 100k people will benefit from the free gym and physical activity sessions, thanks
27 Jul 2020
Bans on meal deals, stricter rules on food advertising and printing calorie contents on menus
01 Jul 2020
ukactive has announced that Active Uprising and the National Summit are going digital as part
24 Jun 2020
Momentum is gathering pace in the push for a U-turn on the government's decision to
08 Apr 2020
Thousands of UK leisure and fitness facilities could close permanently, as operators struggle to deal
04 Nov 2019
Swim England has called on the government and healthcare professionals to "maximise the benefits" of
28 Oct 2019
The government has set out plans for every patient in the country to have access
07 Mar 2019
Veteran physician Sir Muir Gray has called on Health Secretary Matt Hancock to enlist the
28 Feb 2019
The UK’s Prince Charles has said that yoga contributes to “health and healing” and can
28 Jan 2019
NHS England is to recruit 1,000 more link workers as part of plans to increase
07 Jan 2019
Prime Minister Theresa May has revealed a new long-term plan for the NHS, saying that
17 Oct 2018
UK prime minister Theresa May has backed a new loneliness strategy, the government's first, which
06 Feb 2018
TV journalist and presenter Dr Michael Mosley has been announced as a keynote speaker for
07 Jun 2017
A new study supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has suggested that there are
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Third Space partnered with IndigoFitness to deliver a
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Greg Bradley looks at the shift towards strength training in gyms and advises on how operators can create the ultimate training environment
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David Lloyd is stepping up its commitment to women’s health as it continues to explore what fit-for-purpose looks like for the female population
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Active IQ is calling for greater accountability in online fitness advice with the launch of a new trustmark
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Collaborations with the medical profession and greater aspirations around wellbeing are creating a need for more experts in our sector. It’s time to reboot our thinking around the workforce
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us, says the activity advocate
and healthy ageing champion.
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For every member with a tripod and a big following, there are others irritated at the way equipment is being hogged or wary they’ll be in the background on someone’s Insta feed. Do influencers offer valuable, free marketing or are they just a nuisance? Kath Hudson finds out how operators are responding
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As the entrepreneur who started Wexer, Fresh Fitness, Fitness DK and Repeat, as well as being a former elite athlete, Rasmus Ingerslev’s life looked perfect from the outside, but onthe inside it was a different story. He talks to Kath Hudson about healing old wounds
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The Breath Coach“I experienced a blissful feeling of joy I hadn’t felt since I was a kid”
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Founder, SP&Co Group“Working in public health over the last few years has lit up parts of my brain again”
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Strength training is evolving,
driven by changing consumer
preferences. Julie Cramer talks
to innovators about how their
products are meeting this demand
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Small improvements to sleep, diet and physical activity have major benefits for the heart, according to new research from the University of Sydney
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Raphael Cuomo explores the
powerful link between addiction,
health and behaviour change
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Vicci Wells shares insights from the
recent Class of 2035 report into
physical activity in Generation Alpha
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