Terry Austin is a qualified GP Referral Consultant which means he has the knowledge and experience to prescribe exercise for health benefits, based on a client’s referral from their GP. He is registered and insured as a level 3 Advanced Instructor with REPS (the Register of Exercise Professionals) – the governing body of Exercise Professionals in the UK.

Potential Reasons for an Exercise Referral:

• Reduce Coronary Heart Disease risk
• Family History of CHD
• Weight reduction
• Control / reduce Blood Pressure
• Help manage Diabetes
• Reduce Cholesterol
• Help combat Asthma
• Reduce anxiety / depression / stress
• Improve joint mobility / flexibility
• Osteoporosis prevention
• Osteoarthritis
• Exercise during / post pregnancy

Other frequently implicated risk factors to identify those at a higher or low risk of CHD (Coronary Heart Disease) include age and gender, sedentary lifestyle, smoking, diet, high uric acid levels, race, ECG abnormalities and pulmonary function abnormalities:

The Fittwell Health Exercise Referral System is constructed adhering to guidelines stipulated by the NHS NQAF (National Quality Assurance Framework)

To read more about GP Referrals, please click here to download further information.