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Active Practices
Being physically active can play a big part in helping to live life in good health but GPs and their teams haven’t always felt empowered to motivate their patients to move more. With a growing number of people facing health problems from their lifestyles, mental health issues, and being lonely, it’s time to make a change – and lots of GP teams are. Even small increases in how much we move can make a real difference to mental and physical health. Have a look at the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Learning website to find out more about why getting active matters.
The Active Practice Charter is an easy way to make some small but meaningful changes in your practice that will show both patients and staff that you mean it when you say that movement is the best medicine. Becoming an RCGP Active Practice is an amazing achievement and should be shared with everyone. It’s a great example of social prescribing ‘in action’, and an excellent case study for the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Healthy professionals make healthy patients.
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RCGP Toolkit

Click the link below to access a presentation that will help you with everything you need to sign up to the Active Practice Charter and support you in sharing this information with colleagues.
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RCGP Active Practice Charter Webinars
To support Active Practice Charter initiative, RCGP are hosting a series of masterclasses designed to support:
- practices interested in finding out more about the Active Practice Charter
- practices already signed up to the Charter to develop their offering to staff and patients
- GPs with an interest in physical activity and lifestyle medicine develop an extended role in this area.
Physical activity: how to get your initiatives funded
Wednesday 9 April – 18:30-19:30
Physical activity: how to become an Active Practice
Wednesday 14 May – 18:30-19:30
Physical activity: explore an extended role in lifestyle medicine
Wednesday 18 June – 18:30-19:30
Physical activity: how to create effective health pathways
Wednesday 16 July – 18:30-19:30