📢 A date for your diaries! 📅 18 May Active Design focuses on ensuring the places where people live, work and enjoy can promote regular physical activity in daily life. The guidance is being updated and will be presented at a webinar in May.

Very excited to offer a fully-funded PhD opportunity with Dr Alexandra Potts, starting Oct 2023: "How are communities involved in designing, implementing and evaluating systems approaches to improve population health outcomes?" Any Qs, please message Alex or I. leedsbeckett.ac.uk/courses/studen…

UK families tell of threats and police warnings over children playing in street | Access to green space | The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…

A key ability of a change agent at work is to be able to rock the boat and stay in it. If we set ourselves up in opposition, we can get locked into a one-sided model, which depends on having a big dominant authority system to "oppose" & may not achieve much. Change agents need to

Knowledge of CPR is crucial, especially in sport or physical activity settings. #ClubMatters have collated information on: 🔸 Understanding CPR 🔸 Being prepared 🔸 Training opportunities 🔸 Useful resources

New! A short guide: "Developing a systems thinking lens for collective leadership". It shows how we need to work with diverse opinions what the problem is/what we should do about it. It also encourages us to think critically about what we're including/excluding in the boundary

Want to help improve preventative approaches and secondary prevention care for our population and address stark inequity and inequalities? Then please respond to this call for evidence and practice.

Where we live, work, travel & play has a major role in shaping our activity choices. #SportEngland, supported by Active Travel England & Office for Health Improvement and Disparities has updated Active Design guide to help planners, designers & developers create environments that support more people be physically active.

It was amazing to see all the great work being done across hospitals. #ActiveHospitals #PhysicalActivity Jamie Blackshaw Tom Underwood Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine UK OUH Chloë Williamson Professor Chris Whitty Sport England Ruth Stevens NHS Transformation Unit

Next month, mark the 75th anniversary of the NHS by attending your local parkrun. Anyone can go along and you can walk, jog, run or volunteer to help out! Register for your local parkrun now. nhs.uk/parkrun-for-th…

Healthy life expectancy is an important measure of population health. Our latest research and analysis report aims to explore what drives it 👇 gov.uk/government/pub…

75 years on, it is the people who make us. 💙 #NHS75

The design and layout of our built environment can encourage sport and physical activity. Chris Boardman CBE explains how Active Design can encourage healthier, stronger and more active communities. ⬇️

Our Tackling Disparities co-theme lead Maria Maynard with others has published "Improving adult behavioural #weightmanagement services for diverse UK #BlackCaribbean & #BlackAfrican ethnic groups: a qualitative study of insights from potential service users & service providers."

Maria Maynard Tamara Brown Louisa Ells Claire Griffiths Prof Paul Gately Carnegie School of Sport The School of Health, Leeds Beckett University Dr George Sanders Weyinmi Jamie Blackshaw James Nobles Understanding the experiences of target populations and service providers is vital for improving services. The qualitative insights guide further research to address weight-related inequalities among UK Black ethnic groups. bit.ly/46H0LTT #HealthEquity

Great to collaborate with ISPAH and Sport England on what is an infographic with an invaluable set of messages! Karen Milton Sport England linkedin.com/posts/british-…

The latest from our team, working with Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, is now available #OpenAccess in Obesity Reviews. "Obesity appears to represent an important modifiable pre-infection risk factor for severe COVID-19 outcomes, including death" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

People across the country can try loads of free activities tomorrow in celebration of National #FitnessDay 🎉 If you're all about encouraging more people to active, here's where you can direct the people you work with to get involved: nationalfitnessday.com

Tomorrow is National Fitness Day! Getting active is good for both physical and mental health. If you're stuck for ideas on how to get started, check out ukactive’s location finder to discover free events in your local community for #NationalFitnessDay.

Every little bit of movement counts and not just on #Nationalfitnessday! Download and try out Active 10 today - check out the pace checker and make your everyday movement count.