Astro Turf Surfacing: February 2019

Wednesday, 27 February 2019

Raising the bar on strength and balance: The importance of community-based provision

from Physical Activity and Health Alliance Latest additions http://www.paha.org.uk/Resource/raising-the-bar-on-strength-and-balance-the-importance-of-community-based-provision
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Strong, Steady and Straight: An Expert Consensus Statement on Physical Activity and Exercise for Osteoporosis

‘Strong, Steady and Straight’ is a resource from the Royal Osteoporosis Society aims to give health practitioners the information and tools needed to advise osteoporosis patients on correct exercises and movements that may: Promote bone strength to reduce fracture risk, Reduce falls risk, and Help with the pain and symptoms associated with vertebral fractures.

A short guide is available to view here, as well as a simple process for accessing the long guide.

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Tuesday, 26 February 2019

Call for Articles: Social Inclusion: 'Sport for Development'

Social Inclusion, the peer-reviewed open access journal, is welcoming abstracts (1 July 2019 deadline) for articles in their ‘Sport for Development: Opening Transdisciplinary and Intersectoral Perspectives’ issue to be published March/April 2020

This thematic issue aims to advance scientific understanding about sport and development by adapting both a transdisciplinary and intersectoral perspective. We challenge authors to reflect on programs, policies and broad issues in relation to sport, development and social inclusion, and welcome papers from the broad applied fields of health, education, social/youth work, management, crime and rehabilitation.

Authors interested in contributing an article to this issue are asked to read the full call for papers here.

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Monday, 25 February 2019

TravelWest: Transport and Health Essential Evidence

TravelWest, a 'one-stop website for travel information in the West of England’ publishes a wide variety of evidence briefings covering the UK, with a focus on sustainable and active travel. Robust academic studies are covered in the briefs, with topics form air quality, health and behavior change, cycling, walking, health effects, and public policies.

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Transport Research Institute: Essential Evidence 4 Scotland

Since November 2018, Transport Research Institute of Edinburgh Napier have been publishing a fortnightly one-page plain-English set of summaries on aspects of transport planning from robust peer reviewed studies.

Summaries cover many aspects of transport, including Active Travel, cycling, walking, and air quality. ‘The ultimate aim is to increase the use of robust evidence-based research in order to improve the health outcomes of local authority transport interventions. At least twenty one page summaries are being issued in the first 12 months. Over a longer period the ambition is to build a library of accessible summaries of peer reviewed evidence increasingly known of and used across Scotland.’

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Exercise Referral: Learning Exchange

In 2019, NHS Health Scotland are hosting the first of a series of learning and knowledge exchange session for those engaged in the development, delivery and governance of Exercise Referral in Scotland.

This event on 13th March at Cosla in Edinburgh will showcase learning from national and local approaches to Exercise Referral, exploring the core components of effective practice. In addition, this event will also begin the process of developing a national logic model for Exercise Referral through which a consistent approach to monitoring and evaluation can be achieved.

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Tuesday, 19 February 2019

BHF Exercise Referral Toolkit.

**Update Feb 2019: note change of link address**

The aim of this toolkit is to provide an easy-to-read, practical guide for all those professionals involved in the delivery, coordination, commissioning and evaluation of exercise referral schemes. These professionals include general practitioners, practice nurses, community nurses, allied health professionals (physiotherapists, dieticians etc), exercise professionals, health promotion/ public health specialists, commissioners and researchers.

The toolkit has been developed in consultation and collaboration with a range of professionals involved with exercise referral schemes and key national stakeholders.

It draws upon current Government policy for the design and delivery of quality assured exercise referral schemes; it is NOT a replacement for such national policy. Furthermore it should NOT be used in isolation from the National Quality Assurance Framework for exercise referral schemes (NQAF).

It is a tool to aid the design, delivery and evaluation of exercise referral schemes, but is NOT POLICY. It uses the evidence base and local scheme practice to support schemes in meeting the guidelines set out within the National Quality Assurance Framework and to raise standards within schemes.

Using The Toolkit:

The toolkit recognise that capacity, resources and funding vary across schemes and that some schemes are struggling to implement elements of the National Quality Assurance Framework and consequently may struggle to adopt some of the recommendations set out within the toolkit.

The toolkit is not designed as a ‘blueprint’ for how exercise referral schemes must be designed, implemented and evaluated; it offers some best practice principles for all those involved in the delivery, management and commissioning of exercise referral schemes. It is for individual schemes to consider whether the implementation of these principles will improve the design, delivery and effectiveness of their scheme, given the capacity and resources available.

Many schemes may already be meeting the recommendations outlined within the toolkit, in which case the toolkit can be used as a resource for professionals to take a fresh look at their scheme or as a guide for on-going reflection.

Contents of Toolkit:

Section 1: Background technical report: outlining the rationale for the toolkit and the developmental process.
Section 2: A snapshot of exercise referral schemes operating in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland during 2006-2008.
Section 3: A synopsis of exercise referral research.
Section 4: A quick reference guide to exercise referral schemes for referring healthcare professionals.
Section 5: Guidance for exercise professionals working with referred patients.
Section 6: Guidance for exercise referral scheme coordinators.
Section 7: A guide to commissioning exercise referral schemes.
Section 8: A guide to evaluating exercise referral schemes.
Section 9: A qualifications and training guide.
The final section of the toolkit, the appendices, includes sample forms, templates letters, tools and questionnaires.