Why getting active matters

Over to you!

Some ways for us, as GPs, to sit less and move more during the working day include:

• walking to the waiting room to greet patients
• walking to meetings
• getting a sit-stand desk to try ‘active consulting’ (where you conduct phone consultations while standing up or walking around the consulting room)
• active breaks (such as going for a short walk at lunchtime, time permitting).

And of course, sign up to the Active Practice Charter – to advertise to the world that your practice means it when it comes to increasing physical activity AND reducing sedentary behaviour!