Gym management for health care professionals
Over the past four weeks, staff from the Health, Exercise and Sport Science programme have been delivering a gym training course to NHS practitioners who work with mental health patients. The course was designed to allow NHS health care workers to supervise their underused fitness facilities and prescribe exercise interventions to improve their patients’ health and wellbeing.
Martin Skivington, Principal Lecturer in Health, Exercise and Sport Science who wrote the course stated, “It has been great to work with a different client group and one with very specific needs. These staff are in a prime position to make a major impact on their patients’ health, and we are grateful for the opportunity to be able to facilitate this”.
Feedback from the staff attending has been incredibly positive, especially in relation to the standard of the teaching. One candidate stated that the course consisted of “very professional teaching with tutors highly skilled, knowledgeable and completely approachable”, whilst another added that “all tutors throughout the course have been absolutely excellent, very professional, helpful, encouraging and patient, it’s just a shame the course has finished!”.
Final practical assessments take place on Saturday 31 July 2011.