Premium health and wellness group, David Lloyd Clubs, is set to open three new UK clubs before the end of the year in London, Essex and Kent.

Sport England has announced investment into 53 areas highlighted in the top 10 per cent of the UK in terms of inactivity, social need, deprivation and health inequality.

Dr Davina Deniszczyc from Nuffield Health says the time is ripe for the sector to step up and work alongside health professionals in prevention and cure for MSK issues, post-surgical rehab, Long COVID and those in treatment for cancer

HCM editor, Liz Terry, has called on the sector to step up to assist the NHS with stroke rehabilitation to avoid millions being left with life-changing disabilities.

With new stroke rehabilitation guideliness published in the US and the UK calling for more exercise interventions, Vicky Kiernander asks the experts how the health and fitness sector can intervene, to the benefit of patients, the sector and the medical profession

An ambitious initiative to track the progress and development of the UK sports & leisure centre over the last six decades has won support from a number of key industry bodies ahead of a key consulting session next month.

Birmingham’s Motorcycle Museum was the scene for the glittering Members’ Choice Health Club Awards 2014 this evening (30 September), which saw a cross-section of top-performing operators collect accolades based solely on the views of their members.

The team behind independent Harlow club Ripped Gym has recently opened a second site in Basildon – dedicated to company’s late founder – with the 12,000sq ft (1,115sq m) receiving a full fit-out from a range of suppliers.

Life Fitness has appointed the Basildon branch of Ripped Gym as one of its elite Hammer Strength Training Centres following a major new installation worth about £300,000.

Harlow Leisurezone is undergoing a £400,000 redevelopment programme of one of its indoor tennis courts to install a brand new three-storey children’s soft play centre.

Les Mills International (LMI) has launched a new company - Les Mills UK - which will become the exclusive distributor for Les Mills group fitness programmes in the UK.

Privately-owned health club Ripped Gym in Harlow, Essex, will gain a sister site in Famagusa, Cyprus later this year.

Harlow Leisurezone - a new £25m leisure complex being developed as part of the wider regeneration of the Essex town - is set to open its doors to the public on 23 June.

A new £25m leisure complex being developed in Harlow, Essex, will not be completed until mid-to-late April after the contractor delivering the scheme reported further delays.

A problem with the installation of fire dampers at the new £25m Leisurezone leisure complex in Harlow, Essex, has forced the opening of the facility to be put on hold.

The Harlow Gateway Partnership, the body behind a £50m regeneration scheme in the Essex town, has appointed a contractor to build a new community sports and leisure centre.

Latest results reveal that Active at Work, the Fitness Industry Association’s (FIA) workplace-based activity programme, is already successful.