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BBC news reader and star of Strictly Come Dancing, Angela Rippon, has launched a UK campaign, backed by the Sport and Recreation Alliance, which aims ... More

The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is looking for recruits ahead of undertaking its largest-ever research programme. The study, called Our Future Health, will seek ... More

Without government action, economic growth in the UK will continue to be hampered by the rising cost of obesity on society according to a report ... More

Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, UK, has opened a life-sized replica of a healthcare centre for infants, offering visitors an opportunity to discover how ... More

Exercise should be considered as a core treatment for those suffering from arthritis caused by wear-and-tear. New draft guidelines, published for the UK's National Health ... More

A two-year research project will look to find ways to transform the UK's physical activity facilities into musculoskeletal (MSK) hubs that could be used by ... More

With the hospitality and health tourism sectors being closely linked to spa and wellness, Lisa Starr hops onto three of the latest webinars and picks ... More

A number of UK leisure companies and operators have launched initiatives to help ease the pressures on local communities and the National Health Service (NHS), ... More

The main political parties need to "discuss prevention in the same breath as they discuss funding the NHS", according to Jack Shakespeare, director of children, ... More

Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock has published a new technology masterplan for the National Health Service (NHS), designed to transform it into the ... More

The government "needs to show more leadership" and work with the physical activity sector if it wants to save the National Health Service (NHS). That ... More

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has been revealed as the headline speaker for the ukactive’s National Summit 2018. He is expected to use his appearance at ... More

Architects, urban planners and landscape designers have been invited to submit proposals for the UK’s first Garden City of the 21st Century: a “truly modern ... More

Levels of physical activity among boys in England continue to be worse now than compared to seven years ago, with girls showing a very slight ... More

The future of the National Health Service (NHS) could be secured by investing £1bn in the UK’s ageing fleet of leisure centres – and utilising ... More

UK-based Champneys health spa resorts have entered into partnership with the National Health Service (NHS), the publicly funded national healthcare system for the UK, to ... More

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson is calling on employers to drive a radical overhaul of offices to encourage physical activity around the workplace and help tackle the ... More

Plans are afoot to transform a swathe of industrial West London wasteland into a huge new urban area where “people will aspire to live, work ... More

The National Health Service (NHS) in England has unveiled a major genetics project which will seek to unravel the mysteries of DNA and disease. The ... More

The worldwide cost of obesity is about the same as smoking or the war on terror and more than both alcoholism and climate change, according ... More

A partnership agreement between the Welsh NHS Confederation and Sport Wales has been described as a “major step” towards a healthcare system based on preventative ... More

Obesity is the new smoking in terms of its impact on health and cost to the national health service (NHS), according to the organisation's England ... More

Physical activity measures have now been implemented in a voluntary reward and incentive programme used by GPs across the UK. Two physical activity indicators have ... More

Health secretary Andy Burnham has announced details of new sports and physical activity schemes that will form part of the government's vision to improve fitness ... More