Department for Transport Cycling Delivery Plan - The Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine

The FSEM with the Royal College of Physicians submitted its response to this consultation in November 2014. Our key points and recommendations were:

The plan should recognise the role of physical activity and cycling as a treatment, via exercise medicine, in both primary and secondary care, in addition to wider public benefits
Cycling should be promoted as one of the many ways to easily achieve the recommended levels of physical activity per week
The plan should encourage real behaviour change which will only be achieved if improved infrastructure is accompanied by removing social/economic barriers to participating in physical activity