The lowdown on the UK’s largest physical activity trade show

The UK Government’s chief medical officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, will be a keynote speaker at the Elevate Thought Leaders’ conference, 8-9 May at ExCeL London. The free-to-attend conference is a feature of the Elevate exhibition and will debate the major issues impacting the fitness, health and sporting world.

Now in its fourth year, Elevate continues to explore the benefits of physical activity for health and wellbeing.

Active Essex – part of the County Sports Partnership network – has launched a four-year strategy to tackle issues around inactivity and change one million lives by getting its people moving.

Physical activity advocate Dr Zoe Williams has called for support and funding for new initiatives designed to forge closer links between the fitness sector and GP surgeries across the country.

The public health specialist talks to Kate Cracknell about his plans to get GPs in the UK routinely prescribing exercise

ukactive will start its countdown to National Fitness Day 2017 by unveiling a line-up of events at consumer exhibition This Morning Live next month.

Public Health England (PHE) is recruiting more clinical champions as part of its drive to improve the health and wellbeing of people.

Physical activity has been made a clinical priority for GPs, but if fitness – as a subset of activity – wants to benefit, it will need to up its game, says Kate Cracknell

The Royal College of GPs (RCGP) has announced physical activity and lifestyle as one of its clinical priorities for the next three years, becoming the latest influential body to elevate the importance of tackling sedentary behaviour.