Podcast now live – Equipping healthcare professionals to have the skills and confidence to prescribe physical activity

Podcast now live – Equipping healthcare professionals to have the skills and confidence to prescribe physical activity

A senior multi-ethnic couple and their mixed race daughter wearing casual winter clothing and walking through their local park.

In this podcast Natasha Jones, President of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine, William Bird GP, Intelligent Health, and Dan Fitzpatrick, Sport and Exercise Medicine Registrar (ST5) at University College London Hospitals, explore how physical activity can help people live healthier, longer and more independent lives.

This is the fourth and final podcast from the NHS England series that focuses on how we can integrate more physical activity across the NHS and what key actions health and care professionals can do to support this strategic shift towards movement and staving off or preventing ill health.

Read full transcript of this episode on the NHS England website

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About CIMSPA

As the sector’s chartered professional body, CIMSPA works on behalf of the whole sport and physical activity sector – supporting, developing and enabling professionals to succeed and, as a result, inspire our nation to be more active.

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