Formerly the UK’s secretary of state for health, now mayor of Greater Manchester, Burnham has ambitious plans to normalise physical activity and place it at the heart of primary care

The MD of the newly merged Nuffield Health Wellbeing talks to Julie Cramer about expanding further into prevention and wellbeing

What does it mean now that physical activity has been taken off the QOF, and can it be reinstated?

One year after it was added for the treatment of hypertension, physical activity is set to be dropped from the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) in April.

Prominent health and fitness organisations have given their backing to Health Club Management magazine’s call for an industry-wide lobby against the government’s decision to remove physical activity from the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF).

The removal of physical activity from the QOF is a blow to our sector, and we must lobby to have it reinstated, says Kate Cracknell

The failure of GPs to properly use the NHS Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) - the government's voluntary incentive scheme - will result in a dramatic slimming down of the service in 2014.

Edward Phillips, founder of the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine in Boston, US, talks to Julie Cramer about tackling chronic disease

We must present a united front with our wellness allies to keep the momentum behind integrated wellbeing, says Kate Cracknell

ukactive joins forces with Sport England to put more weight behind its drive to see a fitness professional in every GP surgery

Physical activity measures have now been implemented in a voluntary reward and incentive programme used by GPs across the UK.

CEO David Stalker outlines the key changes to public health commissioning which came into force this month, and what these mean for health and wellbeing providers

The CEO and co-founder of Anytime Fitness talks to Kate Cracknell about incentivising healthy living and the company's expansion plans

The director of public health at NICE tells Julie Cramer why the organisation is determined to get GPs prescribing exercise

The sports Operations Manager for Glasgow Life talks to Kate Cracknell about driving a culture of physical activity, and making positive changes at a population level

NICE is now recommending that physical activity be included in the QOF, which financially incentivises GPs for prescribing specific treatments. This is, says Liz Terry, a major breakthrough for the fitness industry