Physical Activity and Mental Health Useful Links
A ground breaking report by the Mental Health Foundation highlighting the need to promote exercise therapy for depression as a realistic and readily available tool for GPs and a genuine option that patients could both understand and choose for themselves.
This is the follow up report to Up and Running. It reveals the barriers that are preventing patients with mild or moderate depression from accessing exercise on prescription.
A Health Legacy for the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The Go London! Strategy sets out how NHS London in partnership with other organisations from public, private and third sectors will lead a significant shift in physical activity behaviour in London. This contribution is a key part of the public health legacy of the 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games. The activity levels must build towards the games but also be sustained afterwards in order that the individual, organizational and wider societal gains are achieved.
NICE is an independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating ill health.
Natural England’s Walking for Health (WfH) encourages you to enjoy your local natural spaces and benefit your health by taking part in health walks. We’re the largest national body promoting and setting the standards for led health walks.
The Promoting Activity Toolkit is part of the Change4Life campaign. It is a resource for promoting activity, cheaply and easily into your area. Amonst other things there is access to: