OPERATOR PERSPECTIVE
Do you have any initiatives to support the broader sector? We have quite a few, in fact. As a charity, Nuffield Health’s whole aspiration and social impact strategy is about sharing learnings, bringing others with us and helping create a new national infrastructure – a new system-based approach to maintenance. One example: we know not all participants of our Joint Pain Programme will want to travel to our centres after the initial free six months, so we’re looking to share our resources, training, governance and infrastructure with other facilities wanting to offer something similar. We’re also developing an alternative to the PAR-Q in conjunction with the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (FSEM) UK – a new approach where you don’t need medical or clinical sign-off to join a gym, even if you’re symptomatic with a long-term condition. Our
infrastructure is enabling us to safely test this and we hope to soon show legislators and the rest of the sector that we can all welcome these people with open arms, without fears over their safety. We’re looking at barriers to the uptake of rehab, too; even when people have been close to death, issues around confidence and place mean they don’t always take up the offer of rehab. So we’re currently doing a piece of work on community-based delivery of fitness-led rehabilitation. It will have the same clinical governance, training accreditation, equipment and functional testing as our in- centre rehab, but we’re exploring new places to deliver it, including space at the side of a pub. We’re trying to make it normal and fun. If this community model works, we can invite and train others to help us deliver it, together catering to more people with long-term conditions and reducing the burden on the NHS.
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