NHS exercise.

[Big Jim]

http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/beactive

Have always thought that exercise is the best medicine. For all that we pay on prescription charges and expensive drugs wouldn't it be great if that money went towards my extortionate gym fee's (That many people can hardly afford).

Looks like the brummy's have more sense than us Southerners.....

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

too be honest there's quite a lot of exercise you can do for free, and it does help for a LOT of things, including stuff like depression

 

[spunkmonkey]

To be fair a number of council facilities operated by external management companies already offer this in some form. I can think of a few that offer either free usage or heavily subsided prices for concession groups and others.

In Hastings GP's get paid to put patients onto exercise schemes and paid further if the client sticks with the exercise scheme.

Then there is free swimming which is on offer in a number of local authorities around sussex for 60plus and under 16's.