Health and fitness guidance for mental illness launched
By Sarah Todd
The government has launched guidance which is intended to improve the physical fitness of people with mental illness.
The guidance will help local commissioners to design services to improve the wellbeing of mental health patients.
According to government research, people with severe mental illness have very low levels of physical health and are more likely to develop diseases such as coronary heart disease and diabetes.
An additional £7m has been made available to employ ‘wellbeing nurses’ to work in partnership with health trainers, mental health staff and GPs to deliver health checks, blood tests and advice.
The government has launched guidance which is intended to improve the physical fitness of people with mental illness.
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
If the health service is to
survive, we must recognise
that it is a disease service
– and that wellbeing rests with
us, says the activity advocate
and healthy ageing champion.
He talks to Kate Cracknell
Strength training is evolving,
driven by changing consumer
preferences. Julie Cramer talks
to innovators about how their
products are meeting this demand
CoverMe, the global leader in fitness workforce management, today launches CoverMe PT, an
on-demand personal training platform that connects the right personal trainer to the right
client in under 10 seconds.
Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing
disparate information from multiple systems to be aggregated into one dataset, to support
its focus on reducing health inequalities and improving healthy life expectancy.
French fitness chain On Air Fitness, with 113 clubs across France and internationally
(Spain, Morocco and Portugal) and more than 430,000 members, has chosen to introduce Panatta
equipment — a 12-machine circuit from the premium Free Weight Special line —
Health and fitness guidance for mental illness launched
By Sarah Todd
The government has launched guidance which is intended to improve the physical fitness of people with mental illness.
The guidance will help local commissioners to design services to improve the wellbeing of mental health patients.
According to government research, people with severe mental illness have very low levels of physical health and are more likely to develop diseases such as coronary heart disease and diabetes.
An additional £7m has been made available to employ ‘wellbeing nurses’ to work in partnership with health trainers, mental health staff and GPs to deliver health checks, blood tests and advice.
The government has launched guidance which is intended to improve the physical fitness of people with mental illness.
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
If the health service is to
survive, we must recognise
that it is a disease service
– and that wellbeing rests with
us, says the activity advocate
and healthy ageing champion.
He talks to Kate Cracknell
Strength training is evolving,
driven by changing consumer
preferences. Julie Cramer talks
to innovators about how their
products are meeting this demand
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
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
UK market penetration has risen to 18 per cent – one of the highest
globally, yet with 100 per cent of people seeing benefits when they
exercise, how high could it go? Kath Hudson asks the experts…
CoverMe, the global leader in fitness workforce management, today launches CoverMe PT, an
on-demand personal training platform that connects the right personal trainer to the right
client in under 10 seconds.
Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing
disparate information from multiple systems to be aggregated into one dataset, to support
its focus on reducing health inequalities and improving healthy life expectancy.
French fitness chain On Air Fitness, with 113 clubs across France and internationally
(Spain, Morocco and Portugal) and more than 430,000 members, has chosen to introduce Panatta
equipment — a 12-machine circuit from the premium Free Weight Special line —