emphasis on physical activity

Key national policies

This is an exciting time for the development of physical activity policy in this country. Physical activity is a major component of the current consultation on aspect of the forthcoming White Paper on health – Choosing Health. And a cross-Government Activity Co-ordination Team (ACT) has been set up to develop a national Delivery Plan for physical activity and sport.

Links to key areas of national policy:

	Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: a cross-Government strategy for England (presentation by Clara Swinson, Deputy Director of Obesity Policy and Strategy at the Department of Health)
	Choosing Health
	Choosing Activity: A Physical Activity Action Plan
	Delivery of National Cycling Strategy
	The Future of Transport White Paper
	The Rural White Paper
	Choosing Health? Choosing Activity : A consultation on how to increase physical activity
	Local Exercise Action Pilots (LEAP)
	‘Game Plan' – the government's strategy for delivering sport and physical activity objectives.
	The Department of Transport's National Cycling Strategy
	The Department of Transport's Walking and Cycling: an Action Plan
	The British Heart Foundation and Countryside Agency's Walking the Way to Health programme
	National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, Four commonly used methods to increase physical activity: brief interventions in primary care, exercise referral schemes, pedometers and community-based exercise programmes for walking and cycling -- Quick reference guide (March 2006)
	National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, Public Health Intervention Guidance no. 2: Four commonly used methods to increase physical activity: brief interventions in primary care, exercise referral schemes, pedometers and community-based exercise programmes for walking and cycling (March 2006)
	Department of Health Statement of Exercise Referral (March 2007)