Acknowledgements
This document could not have been completed without the assistance of many professionals involved in the delivery, coordination and commissioning of exercise referral schemes. We would like to thank all those professionals who responded to the audit questionnaire; kindly provided us with sample forms, scheme protocols and service level agreements and attended the consultation workshops to help shape the toolkit.
We would also like to extend our gratitude to Flora Jackson, Physical Activity Alliance Coordinator NHS Health Scotland; Nicola Brown, former Physical Activity Lead for the Health Promotion Agency Northern Ireland and the Department of Health Regional Physical Activity Leads for their assistance in identifying relevant professionals and convening the national and regional consultation workshops.
We would also like to acknowledge and thank those people and organisations who responded during the consultation phase, their comments have helped shape the final toolkit.
Following the consultation process a national exercise referral toolkit working party was established to assist the BHF National Centre in finalising the toolkit. We would, therefore like to acknowledge the following individuals and organisations for their contribution to the working party and for their support in ensuring the comprehensiveness of the toolkit.
Working party members
- Elaine McNish, Physical Activity Specialist, Welsh Assembly Government.
- Suzanne Gardner, Regional Physical Activity Coordinator - DH West Midlands, PANWM
- Hazel Ainsworth, Health Development Officer, Mansfield District Council.
- Dr William Bird, Strategic Health Advisor, Natural England.
- Claire Flood, Physical Activity Coordinator, NHS Havering.
- Mary Hague, Senior Public Health Strategy Manager, Derbyshire County Primary Care Trust.
- Craig Lister, Public Health Manager, NHS Bedfordshire.
- Jean Ann Marnoch, Registrar, Register of Exercise Professionals.
- Niamh Martin, Senior Programme Officer, Physical Activity, NHS Health Scotland.
- Suzanne Mee, former Healthy Lifestyles Manager, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
- Dr John Searle, Chief Medical Officer, Fitness Industry Association.
- Ruth Shaw, Programme Manager (Health Inequalities, PA Lead), NHS Greenwich.
- Martin Skipper, former Policy Analyst, Fitness Industry Association.
- Steven Ward, Public Affairs and Policy Manager, Fitness Industry Association.
- Victoria Smith, Development Officer - Fitness, Skills Active.
- Jeannie Wyatt-Williams, National Exercise Referral Scheme Coordinator, Welsh Local Government Association.
We would like to extend special thanks to Elaine McNish for chairing the national working party and to Suzanne Gardner for her unquestionable commitment at the final stage of the production of the toolkit.
I would like to acknowledge Karen Milton, Research Associate at the BHFNC for her valuable contribution to the guide to evaluating exercise referral schemes.
A number of other individuals within the BHF National Centre have also contributed to the development of this toolkit in various ways and I would like to acknowledge these individuals for their valuable input.
- Sonia McGeorge
- Sandra Prickett
- Sarah Wortley
Finally I would like to thank Rob Adams for his assistance with the templates and graphics included in the toolkit.
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