Sector engagement guides

Embedding movement into policy, practice and place

Through our work with Place Partners, many have shared that they often felt unsure about where to start, or wished they had been better equipped to influence partners across sectors to explore how physical activity could contribute to achieving their priorities/outcomes.

It can be tempting to copy what has worked elsewhere. But every place is different. Each has its own people, relationships, priorities, and challenges. What works in one place may not work in another.

These resources are designed to help Place Partners and organisations explore how physical activity can support better outcomes for people and communities – in ways that make sense locally. This means adapting approaches to fit your context, not simply replicating what others have done.

Rather than prescribing a single approach, the resources encourage you to begin with what you already have:

You – your role and what you can influence
Your team and organisation – existing ways of working and relationships
Your local partners – connections across your place.

Each resource helps you to think through:

Why – physical activity matters to a particular sector and their priorities
Who – which organisations or partners should be involved
What – practical ideas/examples for integrating physical activity
How – others have approached this, to inspire your own ideas
Enablers – what helps work grow and last over time.

These tools have been co-developed with people and places that have embedded physical activity into across different sectors.

They reflect how change has happened in their context – not as a fixed model to copy, but as inspiration for local learning and adaptation.

They are not designed for 'lift and shift' implementation or as shortcuts to avoid the thinking and relationship-building needed for locally grounded change. Instead, they are here to help you learn, test ideas, and shape your own approach.

Places change over time. Using these resources should be an ongoing process, linked to local learning and action.

Finally, use the resources in ways that are proportionate to local capacity available. You don’t need to do everything at once. Even small changes can make a difference. Every step helps strengthen Uniting the Movement within and across places.

Education – primary schools

4 to 11 years, their families and the school workforce

This tool is designed to help organisations understand why physical activity can improve outcomes for their workforce and service users, and how to make it part of their work. It encourages organisations to think about their local context and learn from others.

The ideas in this tool are designed to act as a step-by-step guide and they may change as we learn more and develop new practices.

The suggested activities don’t all need to be done at once or in full. Organisations can choose the ones that make sense for them, based on their capacity, resources, and priorities, and do them at a pace that works.

If all activities are eventually addressed, physical activity will become a natural, sustainable part of the organisation.

Why physical activity matters to this sector

Start by understanding what matters most to the school – its priorities, goals, and challenges.

Then show how physical activity can help achieve those priorities. This is about framing physical activity as a solution, not an extra task.
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Likely priorities for a school
- Improved educational attainment
- Improved pupil behaviour and attitudes to learning
- Improved attendance
- Help children to build a lifelong love of movement, leading to happier and healthier lives
- Improved pupils’/children’s confidence, social skills, communication, sense of belonging, cognitive function and ability to concentrate
- Improved outcomes for children with special educational needs and disabilities
- Improved pupil and workforce physical and mental health
- Enhancing enrichment provision to support personal development of pupils
- Foster positive relationships between the school and the wider community
- Improved presenteeism (pupils and workforce)
- Reduced CO2 emissions through active travel
- Others that are pertinent to the school.
Schools have a critical role in helping children build a positive and meaningful relationship with movement through providing positive experiences, especially for the fifth of children who rely on school for these experiences of movement.
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What – ideas for integrating physical activity

Here are some things a school should focus on to make sport, physical activity and movement a natural, sustainable part of what it does.
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There are a number of frameworks that set out what primary schools could do to embed physical activity into what they do, including the Whole School Physical Activity (WSPA) Framework, Well Schools – Youth Sport Trust, and other local variations of Active Schools support.

Example: Whole School Physical Activity Framework

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How others have approached this

Based on learning from other places, design physical activity into all the elements identified in the WSPA Framework to ensure a whole school and optimal approach (that reflects the capacity of the school).
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Learn from Bradford’s approach
Learn from Calderdale’s approach
- Schools and education – Active Calderdale
Learn from Doncaster’s approach
- Active Education – Get Doncaster Moving
Learn from Greater Manchester’s approach
- Creating Active Schools: A whole-school approach – Greater Manchester Moving
- Creating Active Schools impact in GM Moving (Nov 2024)
Learn from Lancashire’s approach
- Ready Set Move Active Schools – Together an Active Future
Learn from Tees Valley's approach
- Tees Valley Active Schools Guidance Tool
Learn from the Yorkshire Sport Foundation approach
Ensure the ways of working are conducive to creating the right conditions (ways of working – nine system maturity conditions) in the place to create self-supporting, collaborative development of practices in the respective schools.
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Enablers

1. Workforce development

Train staff so they understand why physical activity matters and how to integrate it into lessons and routines.
Promote collaborative behaviours: co-design activities with pupils, involve families, and share practice with other schools.
Ensure interventions are delivered as intended: inclusive, engaging, and linked to school priorities.
Build a culture of continuous learning: peer observation, continuing professional development (CPD), and communities of practice.

2. Capacity

Make sure there is enough resource (time, people, space) to embed physical activity.
Staff need the right skills and confidence to deliver active approaches.
Use simple, scalable strategies first (e.g. short movement breaks, active travel) and grow over time.
Tap into external support: local Active Partnerships, community clubs, and CAS networks.

3. Senior leadership buy-in

The senior leadership team (SLT) must champion physical activity as part of the school’s vision and improvement plan.
Provide permission and encouragement for staff to adapt lessons and routines.
Allocate time and capacity for CPD and planning.
Embed physical activity into policy and strategy (school improvement plan, behaviour policy, wellbeing plan).
Model commitment: governors and SLT attend briefings, celebrate success, and link physical activity to outcomes (learning, wellbeing, attendance).

Integrating physical activity into primary care networks and GP practices

This tool is designed to help GP practices understand why physical activity (PA) is important for improving productivity and outcomes for both staff and patients, and how they can use it in practice. It takes account of local circumstances and learning from what has worked elsewhere.

This is intended as a guide, informed by current learning, rather than a single prescribed approach, and will continue to evolve as new evidence and good practice emerge.

Practices do not need to implement all of the suggested activities, or introduce them all at once. Over time, however, using a range of these approaches can help embed physical activity into everyday practice in a sustainable way.

Each practice can choose what works best for them, based on their size, capacity, resources and priorities, and introduce changes at a pace that feels right.

Why physical activity matters to this sector

Start by understanding what matters most to the GP practice – its priorities, goals and challenges. Then show how physical activity can help achieve those priorities.

This is about framing physical activity as a solution, not an extra task.
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- The evidence for the positive impact of regular small amounts of exercise in the prevention and treatment of common conditions is overwhelming. Physical inactivity is one of the major modifiable risk factors for preventable early death.
- Physical inactivity is particularly pronounced in people with chronic health conditions, a population which has frequently contact with primary care (people with long-term health conditions are twice as likely to be inactive than those who do not have health conditions).
- GPs and their teams haven’t always felt empowered to encourage their patients to move more. The growing challenge of chronic lifestyle-related disease, mental health conditions and social isolation means it's time to act – and lots of primary care teams are. Even modest changes to activity levels can play an important role in improving mental and physical wellbeing for all of us. Have a look at the 'Why getting active matters' section from the RCGP to find out more.
- The NHS Four Ways Forward to harness the benefits of physical activity for patients and for the NHS seeks to empower healthcare leaders to be much more ambitious, incorporating promotion of physical activity into wider plans on prevention and long-term conditions management to help people live healthier, longer, and more independent lives. It seeks to empower clinicians and health and care professionals with the skills and confidence to discuss and promote physical activity, integrating it into key clinical pathways, aligning it with Core20PLUS5 for adults, children and young people, and supporting staff to stay active, meaning the NHS can help to transform patient outcomes and reduce health inequalities.
- There is good evidence that physical activity promoted in primary care is effective and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have declared physical activity promotion in primary care as a ‘best-buy’ in an economic analysis. In 2020, the WHO released their ‘Guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour’. These include specific guidance for people of all ages and abilities, but the key take home message is for everyone to be less sedentary as well as being more physically active. In some cases, it might be most effective for us to move away from ‘prescribing exercise’ and simply encourage people to move more, because any movement is better than no movement.
- GPs have influence and are a trusted source of information, with one in four people saying they would be more active if told to do so by a doctor or a nurse. 64% of people living with a long-term health condition (LTHC) would like to be more active and 77% of disabled people would want to be more active¹. 72% of people with LTHCs say that the NHS is the most trusted source of physical activity advice² and 64% of disabled people look to the NHS for trusted advice on how to be active³.
Likely priorities for a GP practice

NHS Medium Term Planning Framework – delivering change together 2026/27 to 2028/29 commitments include:

Primary care and community services
- Improve access to primary care, including reducing unwarranted variation in access. Ensure 90% of clinically urgent patients are seen on the same day. We will consult with the profession on this new ambition and approach.
- Accelerating the delivery of neighbourhood services. Neighbourhood teams will be established to support our communities. Working with social care colleagues, they will deliver proactive support for people with frailty and long-term conditions.
- Delivering My NHS GP – using AI-assisted triage models and data-driven pathways to guide people to the service they need quickly and provide those who need an appointment with the ability to book one.
- Delivering 2026/27 GP contract including improving and providing good access whether by phone, online or walk in.
- Continue to improve transformation for primary care services.
- Deploy ambient voice technologies, ensuring the time freed up is used to see additional patients.
Primary care priorities for 2026/27

1. Improving access and patient experience:
- Improving access and urgent access to primary care.
- Improving patient outcomes – e.g. reducing hospital readmissions, improving chronic disease management, and promoting healthy behaviours.
- Improving staff wellbeing and retention. Active Practice Charter and Park Run Practices has been shown to increase staff morale.
- Enhanced focus on patient experience metrics through ONS Health Insights Survey. Anecdotal evidence suggests that integrating physical activity into primary care can have a positive effect on Friends and Family scores for practices.
- Contribute to reducing waiting times for elective care.
- Requirement for practices to inform patients on the day of contact how their request will be handled.
- Push toward digital-first approach with NHS App integration.
- Target of 70% of appointments to be viewable/manageable via the NHS App.
2. Integration and system working
- Stronger emphasis on neighbourhood health services model and alignment with the neighbourhood health framework.
- Emphasise prevention delivered through neighbourhood teams rather than individual practices or PCNs alone. The evidence base for designing movement into neighbourhood health and community-centred care shows that it is an essential route to improving health outcomes, reducing inequalities and supporting NHS sustainability.
- Enhanced role in preventing hospital admissions.
- Integration with urgent care pathways.
- Focus on standardising complex care specifications.
3. Digital transformation
- Mandatory enablement of all core NHS App capabilities.
- Integration with NHS e-referral service.
- Implementation of electronic prescription service.
- Maximising the use of digital health tools.
- Using data to inform decision-making and identify areas for improvement.
There are opportunities for physical activity to be embedded into digital pathways including within practice templates, triage approaches, the NHS app and messaging to patients from practices.

4. Prevention and population health
- Increased focus on cardiovascular disease prevention (222 QOF points (worth c.£300 million based on modelling of average national value of a QOF point in 2026–27 being £225 and the number of GP practices in the country) will be targeted towards cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention to support the government’s ambition to reduce premature mortality from heart disease or stroke by 25% within a decade).
- Focus on population health management approach including social prescribing approaches.
- Enhanced role in health inequalities through Core20PLUS5.
- Greater focus on functional healthspan, not just lifespan of patients, by supporting mobility, falls prevention, frailty delay, musculoskeletal resilience, and maintaining independence.
- Support for people living longer with multiple conditions through anticipatory care, personalised care planning, and reducing treatment burden. Physical activity can be employed as a core intervention alongside medication pathways for CVD, diabetes, obesity and MSK conditions as per NICE guidelines.
- There are new Quality Outcomes Framework points on obesity that include the use of medications (GLP – 1s). Physical activity support should be included in the wrap around support given to those taking GLP-1s as a route to minimising the muscle wastage side effects and supporting weight maintenance and muscle mass as people come off medication. Further information on this recommendation can be found in the guidance developed for Active Partnerships by the APNO, Sport England and Royal College of GPs.
5. Workforce productivity and sustainability
- Staff wellbeing, movement and retention is essential to long-term system resilience and meeting productivity requirements of improving access and outcomes for patients.
- Expanding GP capacity through changes to Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme funding use.
Evidence that physical activity can support primary priorities
- Regular physical activity provides significant physical and mental health benefits both for staff and patients.
- In adults, physical activity contributes to prevention and management of noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer and diabetes and reduces symptoms of depression and anxiety, enhances brain health, and can improve overall wellbeing.
- Reducing physical inactivity is a national priority. Inactivity limits a healthy start to life, contributes to living more of our lives in poor physical and mental health, creates strain on health and social care systems and hinders productivity and economic growth.
- Physical activity prevents and supports the management of the main causes of workplace absence and economic inactivity – stress, depression, anxiety and musculoskeletal disorders.
- Active adults take 27% fewer sick days. 30% of the NHS workforce are estimated to be not at all active (this is higher than the general population); physical activity can support staff wellbeing and productivity.
Sources

Changes to the GP contract in 2026/27 Quality and Outcomes Framework guidance for 2026/27 Medium Term Planning Framework – 2026/27 to 2028/29

¹ Activity Alliance, The Activity Trap

² Richmond Group of Charities (2024), Bridging the Gap Report

³ Activity Alliance Annual Disability and Activity Survey 2022-23
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What – ideas for integrating physical activity

Here are some things a primary care network or GP practice needs to do to embed physical activity into everyday practice in a sustainable way.
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Below is an example of the Active Practice Charter framework to set out what GP practices could do to embed PA into their support for both staff and patients.

1. Active Practice Charter framework

The Active Practice Charter is a fun, easy way to make some simple but impactful changes in a practice that will demonstrate to patients and staff that you mean it when you say that movement is the best medicine. It is free to join and can be led by anyone within your practice.

Example ideas for meeting the Active Practice Charter criteria

Reduce sedentary behaviour in staff
- Switch off the patient call-in system, so clinicians walk to the waiting room instead, allowing them to start their assessment of the patient early.
- Explore funding options through your local ICB for installing adjustable standing desks. Introduce weekly standing or walking meetings.
Reduce sedentary behaviour in patients
- Create a standing space in the waiting room with information for patients explaining why.
- Signpost your stairs clearly, explaining its benefits over using the lift.
- Use the waiting room audio-visual screen to guide patients through seated exercises.
Increase in physical activity in staff
- Introduce a weekly yoga or Pilates session for staff.
- Set up practice challenges e.g. local 10km run, weekend walks, swimming events, Tough Mudder, Wolf Run.
- Organise a free training session on physical activity for all practice staff.
Increase in physical activity in patients
- Visibly advertise ways to get fit locally (posters, leaflets, waiting room screens).
- Provide training for your social prescribers or other frontline non-clinical staff members in the principles of physical activity.
- Leave some simple activity equipment (light weights, grip strengtheners etc) in a corner of the waiting room, with a display on the benefits nearby.
- Partner with a local physical activity provider.
- Join over 2,000 GP practices and sign up with your local parkrun to be a parkrun practice.
- Set up a local health walk with the national Ramblers wellbeing walks led by PPG members or other patients.
- Contact your regional Active Partnership team – they are experts in local physical activity resources and assets, are aware of the Active Practice Charter and are there to help!
For more information, please see Become an RCGP Active Practice.

You can access the RCGP Active Practice toolkit to get more ideas on how to gain accreditation.

Measuring success – some ideas to get started

The ideas below are light-touch, proportionate, improvement-focused (rather than performance management) opportunities that you can deploy to understand impact and success.

Process metrics (simple)
- Number staff trained (monthly)
- Brief interventions recorded (monthly)
- Referrals/signposts made (monthly)
Outcome examples
- % patients with LTCs reporting increased activity at three months
- Patient feedback on experience
Please see the appendix below for a one-page checklist to help you plan the immediate and future actions you could take.

2. Integrating physical activity into patient care with Moving Medicine resources

The Moving Medicine resources support the integration of physical activity into healthcare as a core intervention, recognising its significant benefits for patients' health and wellbeing.

This approach encourages healthcare professionals to discuss physical activity with patients, offering support and resources to help individuals become and stay active.

More information

Moving Medicine
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How others have approached this
- Learn from Clarendon Lodge Medical Practice in Leamington Spa
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- Active Together in Leicestershire
- Become a parkrun practice
- Think Active PCN Lifestyle Clinics
- Sign up for the Active Practice newsletter to receive updated information and case studies.
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GP with extended role in lifestyle medicine (GPwERLM)

An understanding of the socioeconomic determinants of health and health inequity.
Training to use behaviour change tools and techniques such as health coaching, motivational interviewing, brief interventions, signposting, goal setting, the use of group consultations and supported person-centred care including shared decision-making. The RCGP acknowledges the view of some of its members that the evidence base for group consultation models is still in development.
An understanding of how to assess and support improvements in the six pillars of lifestyle medicine:
- adoption of a nutrient-dense whole food plant predominant diet
- incorporating physical activity
- restorative sleep
- avoiding substance abuse
- mental wellbeing
- healthy social relationships.

Lifestyle medicine in general practice

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Integrating physical activity into NHS Talking Therapy services

This tool is designed to help Talking Therapies understand why physical activity (PA) is important for improving productivity and outcomes for both staff and patients, and how they can use it in practice. It takes account of local circumstances and learning from what has worked elsewhere.

This is intended as a guide, informed by current learning, rather than a single prescribed approach, and will continue to evolve as new evidence and good practice emerge.

Services can choose what works best for them, based on their size, capacity, resources and priorities, and introduce changes at a pace that feels right.

Why physical activity matters to this sector

Start by understanding what matters most to the NHS Talking Therapy service – its priorities, goals, and challenges.

Then show how physical activity can help achieve those priorities. This is about framing physical activity as a solution, not an extra task.
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- In England, there are 155 NHS Talking Therapies (formerly IAPT) service providers offering free support for adults with common mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression. Yet, despite the evidence base of the benefits of physical activity on mental health, physical activity is not routinely a part of treatment.
- NICE guidelines for depression recognise the value of physical activity interventions as an effective treatment option across all levels of severity.
- There is a growing body of evidence that physical activity is shown to prevent and alleviate symptoms of many common mental health conditions; however, people with a diagnosed mental health condition are more likely to be physically inactive compared to people without a diagnosed mental health condition.
- NHS Talking Therapies (TT) services offer treatments that are integrated with physical healthcare pathways to support those with long-term conditions. Integrating physical activity within the NHS Talking Therapies offer can help improve person-centred and holistic care that focuses on the intrinsic relationship between physical and mental health and wellbeing.
- Key findings from Sport England/TPHC research in 2023 found that physical activity is widely acknowledged as important in improving outcomes for people with common mental health conditions; 99% of NHS TT staff spoken to within this research said it’s very important.
- In addition, the research showed there is widespread appetite to do more to increase physical activity levels through NHS Talking Therapies services across stakeholders.
- Physical activity is now included in the NHS Talking Therapies Manual v7, and several webinars are available on the NHS Futures platform to inform practice.
Research by Sport England recognises the important role that physical activity plays in improving outcomes for people with common mental health conditions.

In addition, group-based physical activity is a NICE-recommended intervention as a part of treatment for depression at all levels of severity.

NHS Talking Therapies services are well positioned to support patients to overcome barriers, such as motivation.

Emphasis should be placed on enabling patients to move more within the limitations of their health, embedding a greater focus on physical activity in treatment plans and shifting away from the common association of physical activity as ‘exercise’.

To support people to move more (including those living with long-term physical health conditions), it is important for patients to do an activity that is enjoyable, start slowly – building up if appropriate, and gradually, and make the most of good days.

Approaches should align with existing NHS Talking Therapies provision by aiming to be inclusive and focus on integrating patients into their community, behaviour change and activation techniques.

Active Partnerships across England are well placed to connect NHS Talking Therapies services with suitable local physical activity provision.

See the Transformation Partners in Health and Care website for more information and NHS Futures for related webinars.

Likely priorities for a NHS TT service for 2025/26

Key mental health objectives for 2025/26
- Focus on achieving outcomes – recovery, reliable improvement and reliable recovery.
- Digital transformation: the NHS aims to accelerate the 'shift to digital', increasing the adoption of digital tools, electronic patient records (EPRs), and functionality on the NHS App to improve patient experience and care delivery.
- Shift to community care: a significant goal is to shift care from hospitals to community settings through initiatives like the development of virtual wards, aligning with the principles of a neighbourhood health service.
How can physical activity (PA) help meet these priorities
- Through integrating PA conversations into therapy and setting up supportive pathways into community PA provision, we can between understand the role PA can play in supporting outcomes in treatment, and understanding PA's role in self-management.
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What – ideas for integrating physical activity

Clearly set out what an NHS Talking Therapy service needs to do to embed physical activity into everyday practice in a sustainable way.
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Here's an example of a framework to set out what an NHS TT service could do to embed PA into what it does.

This toolkit provides a range of suggested interventions which can support the integration of physical activity into psychological interventions and can be adopted and adapted by any NHS TT service (and other mental health teams).

It outlines a set of possible objectives that can be followed by any NHS TT service trying to incorporate physical activity-based interventions, alongside specific examples from the pilot sites.

The ideas are not intended to be prescriptive or a one-size-fits-all approach. Neither are the topics and suggested activities intended to be exhaustive – some may resonate with you more than others. It is a starting place.

The most effective way of doing this is to collaboratively design the interventions, informed by the needs and experiences of staff, service users and key local physical activity stakeholders, with authentic senior management buy-in.

In addition to this, nominating an appropriate clinician with a special interest in integrating physical activity into mental health treatment can be helpful (or creating a bespoke ‘physical activity coordinator’ role within your team).

This clinician should be supported to set up a ‘lead area’ and/or a working group who would use this toolkit as a guide and start to implement some of the suggestions.

Using quality improvement methodology, like the 'Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA)' cycles, they could present their work to the senior management team, ensuring further buy-in and intentionally pursuing a collaborative approach to service improvement in this area.
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How others have approached this

Based on learning from other places, take a look at examples of how NHS Talking Therapy services have embedded physical activity within their day-to-day work.
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- Learn from Camden and Islington and Healthy Minds Bucks
- Learn from Living Well Consortium
- Learn from Ealing NHS TT service
All three case studies are also contained within the Sport England and Transformation Partners in Health and Care report Increasing Physical Activity in Psychological Treatment – An evaluation of the impact on treatment outcomes for anxiety and depression.
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Enablers

A variety of free workforce training offers are available to increase the confidence and knowledge of clinicians to have meaningful and positive conversations in practice.

Mental health physical activity clinical champion training (MHPACC)

How to Talk to Mental Health Patients and Get Them Active
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Led by The Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam in collaboration with the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine and Intelligent Health, this peer training network supports professionals to discuss getting active with service users.

It aims to increase clinicians’ knowledge and skills in having conversations around physical activity for mental health.

This training is ideal as a team or service together to raise awareness and kick start better use of physical activity in practice.

Format: Face to face or online, interactive training delivered by a healthcare professional
Duration: 1-1.5 hours
Cost: Free

Content includes:
- The importance of physical activity – understand the role of physical activity in preventing and managing mental health conditions
- Evidence-based benefits – the latest research on how physical activity can be beneficial in the treatment of anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, OCD, PTSD and ADHD
- Identifying barriers – learn about the challenges faced by individuals with mental health conditions in becoming active
- Helpful resources – access valuable tools and resources to support your practice and help patients become more active.
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British Medical Journal (BMJ)

Physical activity for people with anxiety or depression e-learning module.
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This 60-minute free digital course takes a practical approach to equip mental healthcare professionals with the necessary tools to confidently discuss physical activity within the context of talking therapy i.e. NHS Talking Therapies services.

Learning outcomes:
- Explain how physical activity can help people experiencing depression, anxiety or low mood due to a long-term health condition
- Understand how to motivate people to become more active in the long term
- Be able to start conversations that explore physical activity in a meaningful and sensitive way and integrate them into existing treatment frameworks/service protocols
- Have the ability to personalise recommendations on physical activity for diverse populations.
This training is ideal for staff inductions and on-going CPD.

Format: Online e-learning modules
Duration: 60 minutes per module
Cost: Free

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Moving Medicine

Moving Medicine is an initiative by the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine and provides clinicians and allied health professionals with accessible, evidence-based, condition-specific information including mental health conditions to help give advice on physical activity at all stages of children, young people and adults' treatment pathways, including anxiety and depression.
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Each condition includes a step-by-step guide on how to have good-quality conversations about physical activity and useful patient information.

Explore the resources
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We Are Undefeatable

We Are Undefeatable is a movement campaign developed by 15 leading health and social care charities for people living with long-term health conditions.
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It aims to support and encourage finding ways to be active that work for people and their condition.

The campaign has created some useful resources for healthcare professionals, such as the Movement Conversation Starter.

It has also produced free resources for service users to help promote moving more with a long-term health condition.

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Conversation cheat sheet for clinicians

Buckinghamshire NHS TT service developed a one-page 'cheat sheet' to help all clinicians keep physical activity initiatives in mind and to encourage referrals to them.
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