Ths week on the RELAXBACK UK Show I talk with Kristen Long about WEGO patient networks and also focus on the Take 2 Minutes to Move Campaign. WEGO has developed a network of patient leaders to help people with many different health issues and I spoke with Kristen about how the system works on UK … Read more
The RELAXBACK UK show this weeks looks at the post of Health & Wellbeing Director in the corporate world and asks what they do. Also some examples of the tick box culture in schools in the UK. Mace is a large construction company and looks after a lot of building sites and also has many … Read more
How we get about and how the power to enable us to do so is generated makes a big difference to our health and wellbeing because of congestion and pollution. The RELAXBACK UK show talks with a couple of experts in the field of transport and power. I loved chatting with these guys and I … Read more
This edition of the RELAXBACK UK Show talk to a family on holiday and a top squash player. Servas is a travel organisation that aims to promote friendly relationships across countries. You can join as a host or a traveller and have like minded people to stay in your home or go travelling. It works … Read more
This edition of the RELAXBACK UK show talks with chef Matt Tebbutt about trying to eat a bit more healthily when travelling for work. There are also some other tips about keeping in trim on your business travels. Also with the Football World Cup it has been hard to escape the sport on the news. … Read more
On the RELAXBACK UK SHOW this week we have Dr Hilary Jones on growing older but staying fit and healthy and Professor Kamila Hawthorne on GPs prmoting parkrun to their patients. Dr Hilary Jones gives some tips for feeling and looking younger. It seems quite a few people approaching retirement do feel around 9 years … Read more
In the RELAXBACK UK show this time I chat with Charles Campion who designs not just buildings but entire neighbourhoods and also Eleonora Bastos who is a nutrition and lifestyle consultant. Charles Campion of JTP architects designs neighbourhoods that encourage an active lifestyle and a strong community. To do this he really has to understand … Read more
On this edition of the RELAXBACK UK Show Dr Zoe Williams, GP and Clinical Champion for Physical Activity and Lifestyle at the Royal College of GPs tells us about the benefits of walking briskly. Also Dee Ashpool talks about the walking group that she leads from a GP surgery in Kenilworth. Public Health England … Read more
In the latest RELAXBACK UK show I chat with GP Mark Spencer about social prescribing and also talk to my piano tuner, Alvin Rittle. Mark Spencer has been at the forefront of making social prescribing work well at the Mount View Surgery in Fleetwood. He has stories of lives turned around and communities being infused … Read more
This week on the RELAXBACK UK Show I talk with Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs about social prescribing and also Dr Zoe Williams about how we need to walk briskly and get our heart rate up for ten minutes every day. Some patients who go to see a GP might … Read more