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Active Living Scheme

The Active Living Coordinator is responsible for establishing, delivering and monitoring the Primary Care Exercise Referral Programme. 

The scheme applies particularly to patients whose health could benefit from a more active lifestyle, those most at risk of heart attack and stroke, but can also tackle problems such as obesity, diabetes, mental ill-health, chronic low back pain and rehabilitation after falls and accidents.

The overall role of the active living coordinator is to address cardiovascular disease and cancer prevention through the development of a coordinated physical activity programme to promote active living.

Within the role the coordinator develops partnerships with key agencies, health professionals, communities and organisations to establish and provide structured patient exercise and education programmes. Allowing increase uptake, participation and retention to physical activity via the scheme. To ensure the scheme links to local strategic plans to tackle health issues and increase physical activity.

To work in partnerships with other local health and physical activity projects and initiatives, which aim to improve health and increase physical activity levels in the local population.

Primary Care Exercise Referral (PCER)

In April 2005 the first and most comprehensive project emerged under the active living umbrella –The Primary Care Exercise Referral Programme. (PCER)

Through extensive groundwork Blaenau Gwent County Council and Blaenau Gwent Local Health Board, in partnership with the National Public Health Service, Public Health Team and Gwent NHS Trust Cardiac Rehabilitation launched this brand new scheme.

The scheme was designed to offer a foundation to providing an holistic systematic, safe & controlled approach to referring people of all ages and health status on to a range of lifestyle interventions in not only exercise programmes but weight management, smoking cessation & counselling.

For further infromation on classes held at the Sports Centres please click on the following links:

Ebbw Vale Sports Centre
Tredegar Sports Centre
Nantyglo Sports Centre
Abertillery Sports Centre

Also there are other outreach venues where classes are held for more information then please see contact details below to get in touch with the Active Living Coordinator.