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News and jobs updated daily on www.healthclubmanagement.co.uk Edited by Tom Walker. Email: tomwalker@leisuremedia.com Gym chains agree to OFT ruling


Three health club operators have agreed to change their contract terms following an investigation by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) which deemed some of the practices used by the gym groups ‘unfair’. Bannatyne Fitness, David Lloyd Leisure and


Fitness First have now agreed to change their contract terms to make them more transparent and give members better cancellation rights. Among the changes to have been stipulated by the OFT are: • Extended rights for members to cancel


their contracts early should their circumstances change in a way that makes attendance at the gym difficult or unaffordable – for example, if they lose their jobs or suffer an injury. • A commitment not to describe membership


as being of a fixed duration, if the contract automatically continues on a rolling basis after the initial membership period has expired. • Greater transparency about key membership


features, including initial membership periods and cancellation rights, and for these to be provided upfront in the sales process.


Members’ rights : Contracts will be more transparent Cavendish Elithorn, senior director at


the OFT, said he welcomed the changes, but that work still needed to be done within the fitness sector. “We’re continuing our investigation into some other companies in the sector and will provide an update in the coming weeks,” he said. Details: http:// lei.sr?a=D9f8D


UK’s public health below EU neighbours


Premature mortal ity in the UK is “persistently and significantly” below the mean of other European Union countries, according to analysis of British health data published this month. The results have been published


in medical journal The Lancet and compare the UK with the original 15 members of the European Union, Australia, Canada, Norway and the US. The study found that the UK’s ranking


against other nations for mortality among those aged 20–54 years has “worsened substantially” over the past two decades and compared particularly poorly for breast cancer, ischaemic heart disease, respiratory infections, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and tobacco- related illness. In response to the article, Health Secretary


Jeremy Hunt has vowed to tackle the “big five causes of death” – cancer, heart, stroke, respiratory and liver disease. “Despite real


Jeremy Hunt vowed to tackle ‘big five causes of death’


progress in cutting deaths, we remain a poor relative to our global cousins on many measures of health – something I want to change,” he said. Details: http://lei.sr?a=P2f7Q


UK Fitness Network membership hits 15,500


Membership of the UK Fitness Network (UKFN) has reached 15,500 members, the highest since the scheme’s formation in 2008. The initiative allows members of health


clubs and leisure centres that are operated by leisure trusts to make use of facilities run


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by other trusts. UKFN now covers almost 100 centres across the country in 26 local authority areas. The initiative was first launched as the


London Fitness Network in 2004. Details: http://lei.sr?a=g8W7d


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