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Ensure awareness and implementation of NICE guidance/ quality standards

  • Behaviour change: individual approaches (PH49) covers changing health-damaging behaviours among people aged 16 and over using interventions such as goals and planning, feedback and monitoring, and social support; it aims to help tackle a range of behaviours including lack of physical activity.  
  • Physical activity: brief advice for adults in primary care (PH44) covers providing brief advice on physical activity to adults in primary care; it aims to improve health and wellbeing by raising awareness of the importance of physical activity and encouraging people to increase or maintain their activity level.  
  • Physical activity: exercise referral schemes (PH54) covers exercise referral schemes for people aged 19 and older, in particular, those who are inactive or sedentary; the aim is to encourage people to be physically active.  
  • Physical activity: walking and cycling (PH41) covers encouraging people to increase the amount they walk or cycle for travel or recreation purposes.  
  • Physical activity and the environment (NG90) covers how to improve the physical environment to encourage and support physical activity; the aim is to increase the general population’s physical activity levels.  
  • Physical activity for children and young people (PH17) covers promoting physical activity for children and young people aged under 18 at home, preschool, school and in the community; it includes raising awareness of the benefits of physical activity, listening to what children and young people want, planning and providing spaces and facilities, and helping families build physical activity into their daily lives.  
  • Physical activity in the workplace (PH13) covers how to encourage employees to be physically active; the aim is to increase the working population’s physical activity levels.  
  • Physical activity: for NHS staff, patients and carers (QS84) covers encouraging physical activity in people of all ages who are in contact with the NHS, including staff, patients and carers; it describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement (does not cover encouraging physical activity in people with specific conditions).  
  • ​​​​​​​Physical activity: encouraging activity in the community (QS183) covers how local strategy, policy and planning and improvements to the built or natural physical environment such as public open spaces, workplaces and schools can encourage and support people of all ages and all abilities to be physically active and move more; it describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.