Gym links with GPs to monitor exercise on prescription patients

A Bristol-based health club called The Fit Firm is to introduce an ‘exercise on prescription’ programme using the FitLinxx system – which will communicate directly between the club and local doctors’ practices

By using the FitLinxx exercise management system, doctors will be allowed instant access to their patient’s progress on their prescription programme.

The Fit Firm director, Marcus Wooldridge, said: “Most commonly, the communication channels between instructors and GPs are very tenuous and unfortunately, through this lack of communication and monitoring, patients tend to fall by the wayside.

“This new programme will give patients the motivation to achieve their medical and personal goals safely and confidently, knowing that they are not only being monitored in a gym environment but are regularly checked on by their GP.”