Food & Health Alliance

Let's Get Moving (LGM) is a behaviour change intervention that has been designed to provide a systematic approach to identifying and supporting adults in England, who are not meeting the CMO’s recommendation for physical activity, to become more active, for the purpose of both prevention and management of inactivity-related chronic disease. The programme can be integrated as a solution with other public health initiatives such as NHS Health Checks.

The LGM approach is based on the recommendations of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) public health guidance Four commonly used methods to increase physical activity, which endorses the delivery of brief interventions for physical activity in primary care as being both clinically effective and cost-effective in the long term.

Commissioning Let’s Get Moving:

This guidance is intended to equip English PCT commissioners and practice-based commissioners (PBCs) with the necessary knowledge to commission LGM according to the principles of World Class Commissioning.

The LGM commissioning guidance supports World Class Commissioning by:

• Demonstrating the leadership role of the NHS in working with local partners, particularly local authorities, to commission an effective and high-quality LGM service.
• Supporting PCTs/PBCs to use LGM to meet local health needs priorities in their Joint Strategic Needs Assessment, Vital Signs indicators and Local Area Agreement (LAA) targets.
• Assisting PCTs/PBCs in completing a needs assessment in order to appropriately commission service providers to implement the LGM initiative;
• Creating flexibility for PCTs/PBCs to establish the best model and identify the most appropriate service providers to deliver LGM and health outcomes for the locality.
• Highlighting how best to engage clinicians in implementing and delivering LGM in a general practice environment; • providing information on suggested approaches to the evaluation of LGM services; and
• Providing measures to monitor quality and improvement, for service providers delivering LGM to use in service specifi cations.