GPs urged to improve activity levels
GPs and practice nurses need to do more to identify adults who are not active enough and to encourage them to GPs and practice nurses need to do more to identify adults who are not active enough and to encourage them to new guidance from NICE.
Fewer than one in four men and one in three women aged 16 and over currently meet minimum recommendations for physical activity in adults, as set out by the UK Chief Medical Officer. And the cost of inactivity to the wider economy – through sickness, absence or premature death – is estimated at more than £6 billion.
The new recommendations include:
- Identification – during consultations or
as part of a planned sessions – of adults
not meeting physical activity guidelines - Use of questionnaires (such as the
GP Physical Activity Questionnaire
[GPPAQx]), rather than purely visual
clues (such as body weight) to identify
inactive adults who are inactive - Tailored advice, taking account of
aspects such as health status , motivations,
circumstances and preferences.
The new guidance also includes
recommendations for health service
commissioners. - For full guidance visit:
http://guidance.nice.org.uk/PH44/
Guidance/pdf/English
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