{"id":775426,"date":"2026-07-03T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775426\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T01:00:09","slug":"nhs-to-reward-people-who-walk-30-minutes-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775426\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS to reward people who walk 30 minutes a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The aim is to sign up more than 100,000 people, with daily stats recorded digitally. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If the target is hit, Sir Brendan says it would count as the biggest marathon in history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He hopes streak culture, the habit forming behaviour as seen on Snapchat and Duolingo, will help people stick with the challenge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The health benefits, and potential NHS savings, will also be significant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If someone walks 30 minutes five times a week, they could gain up to four extra years of healthy life,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sonia Pombo, head of research and impact at Action on Salt &amp; Sugar, says: &#8220;Encouraging people to build regular movement into their daily lives can support better health, and making it simple, achievable and rewarding may help more people get started. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But we cannot rely on individual behaviour change alone. If the government is serious about improving the nation&#8217;s health, particularly for children, it must pair initiatives like this with stronger prevention measures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Full details of the voucher scheme will be released in the coming months, along with information on how to sign up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The aim is to sign up more than 100,000 people, with daily stats recorded digitally. If the target&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[64,63,538,137],"class_list":["post-775426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fitness","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}