Moving Medicine

The ultimate resource to help healthcare professionals integrate physical activity conversations into routine clinical care. 

Moving Medicine believes in empowering people to live active and healthy lives. In the UK, physical inactivity is the fourth greatest cause of ill health with negative impacts on health, social and economic outcomes for individuals and communities.  

Moving Medicine provides clinicians and allied health professionals with accessible, evidence-based and condition-specific information to help give advice on physical activity at all stages of children, young people and adult treatment pathways.  

All health and care professionals should be equipped with the skills and confidence to discuss the importance of taking up appropriate physical activity with patients who have health conditions. this can involve using Moving Medicine’s tools such as: 

• Prescribing movement – step-by-step guide to physical activity conversations in clinical practice 

• Active Hospitals – the ultimate toolkit to help you change the physical activity culture within your hospital 

• Physical Activity Clinical Champions – dedicated training supporting professionals working in healthcare to improve patient care and outcomes.  

• Patient information finder – taking you directly to the disease-specific physical activity advice you need