NEWS UPDATE Perform given FIFA accreditation


Perform, the sports science and medical centre at St. George’s Park’s in Burton- upon-Trent, has become the first in England to receive the coveted FIFA F-MARC accreditation, joining 36 elite medical facilities across the globe as a FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence. Te centre - operated under


Te Olympic stadium took three years to build


Olympic lessons to drive down infrastructure costs


The UK Treasury has set out new guidance for public infrastructure providers on how project risks should be estimated and how to better manage contingency funds. The guidance draws from lessons learned


from the London 2012 Olympics and is aimed at helping infrastructure organisa- tions make the most of their budgets. Published as a supplement to the


Treasury’s Green Book, the new framework is intended mainly for the public sector, however the government is hoping that industry will adopt much of it as a model for good risk management. Among other advice, it shows project


teams how to get earlier sight of key risks, improving the management of their contin- gency funds with lower delivery costs as a result. Details: http://lei.sr?a=0Y9r7


Report links wealth with high physical activity levels


A new report by Public Health England claims that people from lower socio-eco- nomic groups tend to have poorer access to environments that support physical activity such as parks, gardens or safe areas to play. The report, Social and economic inequal-


ities in diet and physical activity, focuses on the link between diet and obesity in low income areas. Among its conclusions, the report states that low income house- holds are also less likely to have disposable income for non-essential costs such as lei- sure-time physical activity. The report comes just days after ukactive


chair Fred Turok made a call to “change the debate” from a simple focus on obesity to provide an equal recognition of physical inactivity as a “top tier public health pri- ority”. Details: http://lei.sr?a=L3G1j


the Perform brand by medical group Spire Healthcare - offers a wide range of services, including cardiac and health screening to performance analysis; nutrition; injury rehabilitation and clinical care pathways. Being accredited as a FIFA Medical Centre


Te medical centre at St George’s Park has teamed with Michael Johnson


of Excellence means it joins an exclusive ‘world club’ among other elite sports medical practi- tioners and will enable medical staff at Perform to interact, share ideas and research projects with other F-MARC-accredited centres. The FA’s head of medical services, Dr. Ian


Beasley, said: “Gaining F-MARC accredita- tion has been a dream first conceived when St. Georges Park was still a building site. “Football medicine and science has grown


immeasurably over the last few years, and The FA take great pride in playing its part in this. Te medical and science team at Te FA see


the F-MARC as a route to a close collabora- tion with the other 36 such centres around the world to promote football player care.” • Perform at St. George’s Park recently part-


nered with Michael Johnson Performance, the US-based performance training brand founded by four-time Olympic Champion and current 400m world record holder, Michael Johnson. The partnership will see a new range


of performance training services become available to players and athletes of all abili- ties at St. George’s Park, as well as bespoke residential camps designed especially for nurturing the talent of young people. Details: http://lei.sr?a=h5R6E


Commission on Physical Activity launched


An All Party Commission on Physical Activity has been established in an attempt to help tackle levels of inac- tivity in the UK, with the commission set to release a report featuring direct, pol- icy-based recommendations in the spring of next year. Te commission is to be led


by Parliamentarians who will take evidence from a cross- party and cross-sector group of experts – including those currently working in sectors such as health, sport, trans- port and education – to help produce recommendations for measures which should be implemented to counter the prob- lem of physical inactivity. Parliamentarians invited to serve on the


commission include 11-time Paralympic cham- pion and television presenter Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson.


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Te commission will look to tackle high inactivity levels in the UK The establishment of the commission


comes in the wake of the Designed to Move report, which has provided strong evidence of the damage inactivity has had on soci- ety at large, leading today’s children to face a shorter life expectancy than their parents. Details: http://lei.sr?a=m2t2Q


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