Improving Health
The Value of Sport
"If a medication existed which had a similar effect to physical activity, it would be regarded as a 'wonder drug' or 'miracle cure'."
Sir Liam Donaldson - Chief Medical Officer (Annual report of the Chief Medical Officer 2009, Department of Health, March 2010)
The cost of inactivity to Kent has been calculated at £20,964,400 pa
(source: DoH commissioned BHF Health Promotion Research Group, Oxford University, includes primary and secondary health costs)
