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Andrew Boyd is the RCGP’s Clinical Champion for Physical Activity and Lifestyle. The RCGP has formed a partnership with Park Run UK and has already signed up over 400 practices to the park run initiative. Park Runs are free, weekly 5 kilometre runs (or walks) open to anyone over the age of 4 of any ability. They run in over 750 locations in the UK and have proven a hugely successful way of encouraging physical activity and wellbeing. Andrew explains how the partnership came about, and how practices can become involved. He describes two case-studies of patients who have benefited and explains some of the other initiatives covered by his champion role.

Show Notes

Andrew explains how he became a clinical champion with the RCGP (0:52)

What is Park Run? (1:54)

Open to all abilities and all communities (2:42)

Spread across the UK…and around the world (3:22)

The partnership between the RCGP and Park Run UK (3:42)

The success of the partnership (4:47)

Promoted to patients – and GP teams (5:14)

Two practical examples of the impact (6:21)

Why should GP practices promote Park Run? (8:10)

Other elements of Andrew’s role – teaching and tool kit (9:43)

Moving Medicine ([/skipto]11mins 10secs)

Impacting on the whole community – at-scale working (11:47)

Social prescribing (13:10)

Further information (14:40)

Further information is available from the RCGP website here

The Physical Activity and Lifestyle resources are available on the RCGP website here

The Moving Medicine website is available here