Intelligent Health’s successful walking and cycling initiative, Beat the Street, has been featured as a pioneering method of encouraging schoolchildren to stay active on BBC’s Back in Time for School programme.

A new national programme that aims to encourage over 655,000 adults and children across England to become active has been hailed early success with substantial changes in behaviour in Swindon, Torbay, Weymouth & Portland and Poole, the first communities that have participated.

Thousands of people are set to get moving in Scotland as the first Beat the Street programmes of 2019 begin later this week.

“Imagine if next time you visited your doctor, instead of them prescribing you any medicine, they instructed you to join a local gardening group or take up painting with a nearby arts and crafts club. While that may seem strange today, you may find your GP doing something very similar in the near future.”

Intelligent Health is helping primary care providers and other organisations across the UK transform how health and social care is delivered through its pioneering social prescription services.

Katherine Knight – Marketing Director for Intelligent Health – has been appointed as the Chair of rounders national governing body, Rounders England.

‘Shifting the focus of the NHS to prevention is vital but bringing partners along and taking a whole-system approach is needed for the health of the NHS, local partners and us as humans.’