Resource Bank
Local signposting opportunities
What’s Your Move Barnsley is about helping people to be more active for good physical and mental health. This document for healthcare professionals provides a snapshot of health benefits to being active inclusive of immediate and long-term benefits and ways of incorporating physical activity into daily lifestyle. Barnsley Age UK Older People Physical Activity Alliance are an organisation aiming to increase the provision of physical activity programmes across Barnsley.
Our activity finder is a tool accessible across Calderdale and Kirklees to support people and workforce in identifying activities local to your home.
Active Calderdale aims to tackle inactivity in Calderdale by making it an embedded part of day-to-day life for everyone in the borough. This website offers a variety of activity finders to support you in signposting patients to local activities. Check out the get involved- Health and Social care for upcoming events, recent case studies and how you can join their network.
Kirklees and Calderdale Health and Wellbeing - Current and future health and wellbeing offers.
Training for Health and Care - Helping People To Move More - training slides.
Get Doncaster Moving signposting opportunities to find activities near you, linked to GDM is Your life Doncaster which provides information for adults, young people and children to live happy, healthy lives and discover what is available in their local communities.
Sheffield City Council operate 'Keeping well in your local community' and Sheffield Clinical Commissioning group have developed a tool to support clinicians on guiding patients to activities that can support living a healthier lifestyle (see appendix 1).
You can also get more information and advice, and discover local groups, activities and services via the Sheffield Directory.
Sheffield physical activity referral scheme, or SPARS, is for people with health conditions who want to move more.
We also work in partnership with a variety of community sport organisations. Sheffield United Football Club activities by age and Sheffield Wednesday Football club community programme both deliver programmes to support people wanting to increase levels of physical activity in a social setting.
The South Integrated Care System have useful resources on Green Social Prescribing aimed to work together to join up all activities, organisations and providers to have one clear goal- to improve people’s mental and physical health through green and blue social prescribing.
Voluntary Action Rotherham support, develop and promote voluntary and community sectors in Rotherham.
RotherHive provides a range of verified practical mental health and wellbeing information, support and advice for adults in Rotherham.
flux Rotherham create art projects and cultural events with communities.
Active regen delivers free physical activity to all ages and abilities across South Yorkshire.
The prehab4cancer and recovery programme is a free exercise, nutrition and wellbeing scheme, designed to help people with a recent diagnosis of cancer prepare for, and cope better with their treatment. This case study has been shared to illustrate an example of how Physical Activity can play a huge part in recovery and reduction of further problems and aims to help people take an active role in their care and live as well as possible with and beyond cancer.
Summary of Evaluation
- Greater Manchester (GM) Cancer was the first regional system in the UK to introduce a large scale Pre- habilitation and rehabilitation programme as a standard of care for cancer patients. It started as a two-year transformation project, launched in April 2019, aiming to provide patients with the best opportunity for excellent quality outcomes and long-term survival.
- The programme includes physical exercise, nutritional screening and advice, and emotional wellbeing support both before, during and after cancer treatment. Aiming to improve quality of life, reduce length of stay and enhance recovery, and categorised interventions into universal, targeted and specialist
Headline Evaluation Points
Patients are optimised prior to surgery and have long-lasting health benefits following post-operative rehabilitation. This reduces demands on healthcare services throughout the cancer pathway.
- Quality of life and physical activity improvements indicate long-term behaviour change and health improvement, with patients taking control of their care.
- Improvements are seen in both ward and critical care bed day usage resulting in improved elective care capacity and effective use of resources. Additional positive impacts on 30 and 90-day readmission and emergency department admissions have been observed.
- Efficiency improvements to pathways are visible which support delivery of elective care and cancer recovery plans, and achievement of cancer performance standards.
- Evidence that supports improved survival in patients who complete prehab.
Headline results include
- 5-day reduction in hospital length of stay per prehab patient
- 4-day reduction in critical care length of stay per prehab
- 550 ward bed days ‘released’
- 146 critical care bed days ‘released’
- Bed days ‘released’ from 1000 colorectal prehab patients enable 179 additional patients to access timely surgical pathways.
Theories of behaviour change are essential to understand Physical Activity and provide an organising framework for effective intervention. When helping people to move more we have to consider our approach in changing behaviour around habits, lifestyle and wider determinants. To support transition and ensure positive change to lifestyle. We have provided some examples of behaviour change theories to support you.
Transtheoretical Model
This relates to a model of behaviour change that assesses an individual’s readiness to act on a new healthier behaviour and provides strategies or processes to guide the individual through the stages of change.
Transtheoretical Model- Six stages of change
COM-B
The COM-B model of behaviour is widely used to identify what needs to change in order for a behaviour change intervention to be effective. It identifies three factors that need to be present for any behaviour to occur: capability, opportunity and motivation. Capability refers to an individual’s psychological and physical ability to participate in an activity. Opportunity refers to external factors that make a behaviour possible. Lastly, motivation refers to the conscious and unconscious cognitive processes that direct and inspire behaviour.
We have created a change plan template and some top tops that can be used with clients to support your conversations and aid clients to take responsibility of their change for a positive sustainable result.
Top tips
- Set achievable goals and realistic time frames
- Create a list of reasons you want to become more active
- Consider peer mentoring to support with any barriers
- Encourage others to join you to support motivation and encouragement
- Think about how moving more will change your future
- Share your plans and success with others who can support
- Its not a race, go at your own pace
- Acknowledge some days will be tough and this not failure
Principles and Core Skills of Motivational Interviewing
A pre-recorded video by Andy Picken discussing the difference between Physical Activity and exercise, barriers to Physical Activity and how we can embed moving more into our daily lifestyle.
British Journal of Sports Medicine article on Effective fall prevention exercise in residential aged care: an intervention component analysis from an updated systematic review. The effect of fall prevention exercise programmes in residential aged care (RAC) is uncertain. This paper reports on an intervention component analysis (ICA) of randomised controlled trials (RCTs), from an update of a Cochrane review, to develop a theory of features of successful fall prevention exercise in RAC.