Jason Bailey highlights Oldham’s work connecting hospital and health club

With Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, announcing his resignation this morning and Andy Burnham as a possible successor, the fitness, health and wellness sector is evaluating its position. 

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.

Speedflex has launched a series of low-intensity workouts for its Blade machine, making functional, resistance-based training more accessible.

Investment in EGYM’s Open Mode is driving member engagement at Active Blackpool, as Chris Rushton explains

Supporting the GLP-1 journey and delivering for WorkWell centres are the topics of this month’s letters

Encouraging members to walk or dance on non-gym days could be a great strategy for health club operators, says Muir Gray

The leisure business and commercial manager of Move Southwark talks to HCM about the experience of bringing leisure services back in-house

Head of health and wellbeing development at UK Active, Kenny Butler, has announced he is moving on after 11 years at the UK trade association.

Vicky Kiernander talks to founders about how they were inspired to overcome trauma to achieve their goals

According to a study commissioned by GM Active, health intervention programmes provide more than £20,000 of social value per person and £5,600 worth of health improvements.

Oldham Active has created the new role of head of health and wellbeing to tackle inequalities by strengthening links with the healthcare sector and expanding the exercise referral scheme.

Colin Waggett, Tom Leverton, Elaine Jobson and Liz Clark are among the line-up of CEOs giving their take on current issues, such as how to influence governments and whether the recovery trend is here to stay.

In a drive to target the hard-to-reach groups, Places Leisure has introduced a team of social prescriber link workers as part of its Healthy Communities strategy.

Cliff Collins gives the historic background to the development of the health and fitness sector across the Continent

The duo have brought together a wellness trust and a GP federation to create a new model with clinical governance embedded at its heart, as Kate Cracknell reports

EGYM is transforming fitness programmes in North Northamptonshire

The importance of strength training for special populations is leading to the creation of a new generation of equipment that facilitates safe use. Julie Cramer investigates

Pendle Leisure Trust – which operates in one of the most deprived areas in England – has appointed Simon Gwynne as CEO.

Some 800 people attended the UK Active Awards ceremony last night (3 October) in Birmingham. Sponsored by STA, the hosts were Professor Greg Whyte OBE and comedian, Esther Manito.

Dr Tim Anstiss talks to HCM about the ‘coachbots’ he’s developing to help clubs successfully support behaviour change in members

What really needs to happen for the physical activity sector to effectively integrate with healthcare? Leaders in the field share their thoughts

Now mental health is the number one reason people join health clubs, do teams need a grounding in counselling? We ask the experts

While there’s much talk of fitness and healthcare working closer together, research shows that there are still many barriers to overcome

The Life Leisure execs talk about their radical approach to the provision of physical activity in areas of deprivation

Roland Omamor, Mike Lyons and Ken Masser talk about serving communities and building strategic partnerships in their letters to HCM

The booming market for strength training is driving growth in everything from hardware to programming, as Steph Eaves discovers

A new Quest mystery shopping initiative reveals how operators could do better when handling communications with hard-to-reach groups

If operators want to grow their business, they need to support those with long-term health conditions, says Exi’s head of research. She tells Kate Cracknell how this can be achieved

The health and fitness industry is making exciting progress towards integration with the health service says Liz Terry