Public Health Minister news

The UK government has unveiled plans for a pilot scheme, aimed at using financial rewards and other incentives to encourage people to exercise more and ... More

Everyone Active is offering a month’s free trial of its digital Everyone On Demand service to every member of the general public. The operator has ... More

An England-wide survey of over 5,000 adults found that 80 per cent of people aged over 18 have made the decision to change their lifestyle ... More

The government is investing an additional £13m in Bikeability, a programme designed to ensure schoolchildren across England will learn essential cycling skills. Bikeability training is ... More

Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock has launched a review into the NHS Health Check service, which will explore the possibility of introducing new, ... More

Physical activity sector leaders, parliamentarians and leading figures in health and business have called for the strengthening of preventative health measures in the UK. During ... More

The Soft Drinks Industry Levy has come into effect today (6 April), in a move which the government says will "benefit millions of children across ... More

Scotland plans to roll-out 'The Daily Mile' scheme to all educational facilities and workplaces in a bid to tackle obesity in the country. Currently, the ... More

Pippa Britton, chair of Disability Sport Wales, has been appointed as vice chair of Sport Wales amid a number of new board appointments. Former Paralympic ... More

Dame Sarah Storey, triple gold medalist at this summer’s Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, has been confirmed as one of the high profile speakers at this ... More

Freedom Leisure has become the latest operator to join the Dementia Friendly Swimming programme, with the scheme being rolled out at the famous K2 Crawley ... More

An impressive line-up of leading public health figures will take to the stage at the Emirates Stadium in London next month for ukactive’s 2015 National ... More

New figures from Public Health England (PHE) reveal that diseases caused by high blood pressure are estimated to cost the NHS over £2bn a year. ... More

Key players and leaders of the UK's active leisure sector are preparing to attend the annual ukactive Summit, to be held at the Congress Centre ... More

The Department of Health is investing an extra £5m in getting children and families to exercise and play more sports. Most of the funding will ... More

The Fitness Industry Association (FIA) and the Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (IMSPA) are to host a joint summit later this ... More

Public health minister Anne Milton has revealed that the Change4Life initiative has recruited superhero television character Sportacus to help encourage children become more active. The ... More

The government is to provide a £12.5m support package designed to provide cycle training for 500,000 additional schoolchildren by 2012. The funding - part of ... More

New research published as part of the government's National Child Measurement Programme has revealed that more than one in five children in the UK are ... More

More than 3.8 million adults across England use exercise to "make up" for excessive alcohol consumption, according to new research from the Department of Health ... More

New research from the National Heart Forum (NHF) has suggested that an increase in obesity levels among children across the UK may be starting to ... More

A new campaign designed to get 100,000 people more active through dance ahead of the London 2012 Olympics has been launched by the Department of ... More

Natural England has joined in the battle to ease the UK's obesity burden by launching a new manifesto, titled Natural Health Service. The manifesto outlines ... More

The Department of Health (DH) has launched a new plan to get couch potatoes off their sofas. The scheme – called Be Active, Be Healthy ... More