Active Hastings to play crucial role in developing physical activity for health pathways

Active Hastings is set to play a significant role in how the health sector across England supports adults to develop a more active lifestyle.
 
It has been selected as one of 39 organisations that will help design and test possible solutions so that the health sector, together with physical activity providers, can support those living with, or at risk of, a long-term health condition.
 
The Physical Activity for Health Pathways is an Active Partnerships National Organisation project. Move Consulting was selected by APNO to work in collaboration with them on this important project which seeks to develop pathways for physical activity in health and care systems. The project is funded by Sport England.

Active Hastings will now join one of five communities of practice to co-design information tools and guidance for the sector to help create the pathways.

Annie Holden, Strategic Lead for Health from Active Partnerships National Organisation said:
 
"Currently, one in four of us is living with multiple long-term health conditions. That statistic is set to rise to two thirds of us aged over 65 by 2035. We know that our health care systems are under pressure, yet physical activity could help prevent up to 40% of these conditions. Furthermore, a more active lifestyle could help to manage more than 20 of the most common physical and mental health conditions.

Working with a broad range of organisations will really help us to create pathways that work locally and we're looking forward to driving ahead with Move Consulting and its research partner, Coventry University."

The full list of the organisations involved in the communities of practice is as follows: 
 
1. Active Derbyshire
2. Active Dorset
3. Active Gloucestershire
4. Active Hastings
5. Active Kent and Medway
6. Active Lancashire
7. Move It or Lose It Ltd
8. Active Oxfordshire
9. Active Suffolk
10. Active Together
11. Amber Valley Borough Council
12. Be Active
13. Buckinghamshire Council
14. Dorset Council
15. Ealing Council
16. EnergiseMe
17. Energize S-T-W
18. Get Berkshire Active
19. GLL (Cumbria)
20. GLL (South East London)
21. Greater Manchester Moving
22. Herts Sport and PA Partnership
23. Horizon Rehabilitation
24. Improving lives Plymouth
25. Ipswich Borough Council
26. Leamington Spa Primary Care Trust
27. London Borough Waltham Forest Council
28. Medway Council
29. MSP
30. MyTime Active
31. North Lincolnshire Council
32. Northamptonshire Sport
33. Rise
34. Rotherham United Community Trust
35. Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
36. Sport Birmingham
37. Wesport
38. Yorkshire Sport Foundation
39. Active Surrey