Description

This is a secondary prevention project, it's aim is to encourage medically vulnerable clients to take up tailor-made exercise in order to improve their health and wellbeing, ie medically vulnerable clients which are statistically more prone to coronary heart disease ie clients with diabetes, controlled hypertension and/or obesity are referred for an individually tailored/supervised exercise.

Organisation

Sperrin Lakeland Health and Social Care Trust
Community Health and Primary Care Castle Buildings Pagent Square
Enniskillen
BT74 7HS.

Contact details

Joyce Thompson
Health Promotion Coordinator

Tel: 02866 382171

Project areas

• Working in partnership or collaboration with others
• Quaility of life improvement

Project target

• Relatives/Visitors

Timeframe

Date start: 01 January 2004

Project ongoing: No, the project has concluded.

Objectives

To encourage medically vulnerable clients to take regular physical activity

To encourage GP/Practice nurses to refer medically suitable clients into the scheme

Clients to participate in the project and feel the benefit of the same

Clients/GPs/Practice nurses will see medical indications of the health benefits

Help empower the clients

Link with/support other initiatives

Outcomes

Planned

Clients will see the value of/enjoy being physically active.

There will be medical benefits is reduction in HBA1c, lower blood pressure, weight loss, reduction in medication.

No clients will be discriminated in terms of age, physical ability, race or ethnicity.

Actual

Over 200 clients were referred in the first nine months of the project.

Clients are staying with the project (the client received six months free exercise and six month's half price exercise) and those finished the project continue to exercise.

The majority of clients exercise twice a week with the project and twice a week on their own.

A satisfaction survey has shown the clients enjoyed the project.

Whilst it is too early to state that there have been definite medical changes a number of clients have lost a significant amount of weight, HBA1c results appear more stable, one client has reduced his oral diabetic medication from two tablets daily to 1/2 a tabley daily.

The age range of clients on the prject (it is open to adults only) is from 16-72 years.

Clients involved in the project have been empowered to talk to others about the project ie update the local GPs formally and talk to Prince Charles.

Link with other projects ie Fit Foods, New Horizons, SMI research, the pre-assessment clinic.

Medical improvement and fitness improvement noted.

Key learning

Outcomes

Not available

Actual

Not available

Project evaluation

Has the project been evaluated: Yes, the project has been evaluated.

Is an evaluation report available: Yes, an evaluation report is available.

Project enhancements

Not available

Project gains

Not available

Project developments

Not available