{"id":46099,"date":"2025-08-05T18:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T18:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/46099\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T18:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T18:12:12","slug":"walking-cricket-to-be-prescribed-to-gloucestershire-men-on-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/46099\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking cricket to be prescribed to Gloucestershire men on NHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sessions began last month and will last for 14 weeks, with patients prescribed it based on their age, BMI, and ethnicity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Freddie Charrington, a GP at Phoenix Health Group in Tetbury, said the scheme was &#8220;breaking down barriers&#8221; in getting men to get help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You lose muscle mass faster as you get older, so keeping active, doing sport is essential,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s getting easier, but traditionally, it is hard to get men to come to their doctor&#8230; being able to mix it with sport is perfect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know exercise helps physical health, but also being able to talk to other men about their problems is going to help.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sessions began last month and will last for 14 weeks, with patients prescribed it based on their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-46099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}