A grant of £11,000 has funded new fitness equipment, helping patients at mental health wards across Leicestershire to ...

Tracking steps, measuring heart rate, counting calories, monitoring sleep: wearables have become part of everyday life for a surprisingly large portion of the UK. According to researcher YouGov, ...

It's not yet clear whether wearable fitness trackers, such as Fitbits, Jawbones and Microsoft Bands, really do encourage us to become healthier over the longer term. They might make us move more and ...

The co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fitbit, James Park has announced in an interview with the Sunday Times that the company is currently holding talks with the NHS to integrate the wearable ...

FAMILIES could get discounts on their supermarket shop, cut-price sports gear and free cinema tickets for hitting step count targets under a new NHS scheme. The proposal, aimed at cutting the pressure ...

The NHS will provide fitness bootcamps for cancer patients to give them a better chance of survival. Patients will be encouraged to sign up for the three-week courses within 48 hours of diagnosis to ...

CANCER patients will be signed up for NHS fitness programmes in a bid to prepare the body for gruelling treatments such as chemotherapy, it emerged yesterday. NHS bosses are hoping that intense ...

Families could soon see the price of their supermarket shopping slashed if they hit certain targets on an NHS fitness app. The new scheme would see targets given for the amount of walking done by an ...