Refreshments served in the Atrium

Introduction to the Improving Health and Increasing Activity Conference 

• State of the nation: physical activity levels and benefits  

• A system approach to physical activity 

• Update on OHID and Sport England's 'Moving Healthcare Professionals Programme, with a focus on Activating NHS Systems

• How physical activity reduces anxiety and depression.

• How the humble bicycle has the power to change lives.

• The Big Birmingham Bike project and Essex Pedal Power.

• Tackling health and transport inequalities - the social and economic benefits.

• Creating a more inclusive, healthy community and removing cost as a barrier to participation

Opportunity to ask questions of our panel of experts.

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• What is social prescribing and personalised care?

• How social prescribing can help connect people to physical activity

• Current government policy on social prescribing and progress so far

• How to create strategic partnerships across sectors and use social prescribing to tackle health inequalities and improve population health. 

• An introduction to the DfT’s Active Travel Social Prescribing pilots.

• An overview of the feasibility study process, the successes of cross-government working and collaborative project design.

• Intended project outcomes and investigating the link between behaviour change interventions and capital infrastructure investment.

• Introduction - Homes England’s overall role and remit.

• Our design quality approach in housing site delivery.

• The role of transport in delivery quality places; Vision and Validate – an emerging transport approach.

• Sustainable and active travel components in street and place design.

• Focus on the design of space to encourage more sustainable modes including elements such as decluttering.

• Encouragement of integrated planning from Stage 1 through to delivery.

• Promotion of the concept of local living and designs used to encourage cycling and wheeling.

• Brought together through inclusive and permeable design principles.

• The barriers people with long term conditions face in being active

• Ways that we can support people to move more

• Live, Longer, Better is a cultural revolution pioneered by Sir Muir Gray

• Developing a new culture: from care to enablement, using activity (physical, cognitive and emotional) as the driver to increase healthspan for older adults.

• A prevention-based approach ‘to reduce the need for health and social care and more recently it is a means to ‘reverse the effects of lockdown’

• Our work with the powerful Active Partnership network 

• Presentations from Active Devon and Herts Sport Partnerships​

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• Creating active environments that improve our health. 

• From sport to activity. The importance of developing physical literacy at a young age.

• Implementing design that will help to create new environments.

• Lessons learnt from an Active Environment case study supported by Sport England, and cues from the International Physical Literacy Association.

• Our Workplace Health Journey in Lancashire

• What we've learnt about engaging with businesses

• Working with wider stakeholders - Integrated Care Systems, Local Authorities, VCFSE and project partners

• Future development plans to make workplace health a priority in Lancashire

• Just 1 in 400 people in care settings were classed as active.

• 24% of participants moved from inactive to active, after just 3 months!

• 20% cycled more than 30mins per week!

• 14% increase in general health & wellbeing.

• Statistically significant improvements in all measures, leading to increased quality of life.

• The introduction of Motiview led to care home staff feeling more motivated and increased the staff work environment.

• A systems approach to integrating physical activity into secondary care.

• The short and long term benefits for all.

• Live case study.

• A growing network of GP teams are proud to call themselves Active Practices 

• A fun, simple way to encourage patients and staff to move more and reduce sedentary time, for physical and mental wellbeing

• Case studies of inspiring Active Practices

• How wider stakeholders can collaborate with primary healthcare

• Group exercise is the third-highest activity for participation rates in England 

• The Group Exercise audience is over 80% female, with campaigns like This Girl Can - activating more women into grass-roots activity every week.

• 55% of group exercise instructors want to be involved with social prescribing

• 65% want to be involved in GP referral schemes 

• Many people struggle to find an entry point, meaning people miss out on physical activity opportunities.

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An opportunity to ask questions of our panel of experts.

Thank you for joining us today, see you again soon!