Jacquetta Fewster

Walking for Health Project Manager

24 September 2014

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Douglas Macmillan: an angry visionary

Some of our achievement in 2008

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In fact, nearly one in two of us will get cancer.

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Being active reduces relative risk of cancer by:

30-50% for colon cancer20-40% for breast cancer

Not everyone is living well

American College of Sports Medicine (2010)British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (2011)

A framework for physical activity behaviour change

Stakeholder engagement

Quality assurance

Raise awareness

Brief adviceBehaviour

Change Intervention

Support and follow up

Get and stay active

Tools and Resources

Walking groups

Physical activity the underrated wonderdrug

‘Keeping active has helped me, and my family, through

a really difficult time. It’s helped me return to a more normal way of life and has

given me a real sense of achievement’.

Ted Poulter, 66 Pseudomyxoma peritonei