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GPs urged to improve activity levels

GPs and practice nurses need to domore to identify adults who are notactive enough and to encourage them to GPs and practice nurses need to domore to identify adults who are notactive enough and to encourage them to new guidancefrom NICE.

GPs and practice nurses need to domore to identify adults who are notactive enough and to encourage them to GPs and practice nurses need to domore to identify adults who are notactive enough and to encourage them to new guidancefrom NICE. Fewer than one in four men and one inthree women aged 16 and over currentlymeet minimum recommendations forphysical activity in adults, as set out bythe UK Chief Medical Officer. And thecost of inactivity to the wider economy €“through sickness, absence or prematuredeath €“ is estimated at more than £6billion. The new recommendations include: Identification €“ during consultations oras part

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