New impact report shares GM Moving's progress integrating movement into health systems

By GM Moving | 14 August 2025 | TAGS: Health, Mental Health

GM Moving has proudly published our Heath Report for 2024/25 as we continue our efforts to embed movement and physical activity into all aspects of GM’s health and care system.

Activity and Impact: Integrating movement into Greater Manchester’s health systems outlines our whole-system approach alongside some of the team’s biggest successes from the past 12 months.

The report covers work from April 2024 to March 2025, the first of a three-year funding agreement with NHS GM, as we work to deliver the GM Moving in Action and the GM Integrated Care Partnership strategies.

Download a copy of the report here

NHS GM, working closely with GM Moving and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, are committed to a bold, innovative approach to public health, supported by devolution from central government.

It is a long-term commitment, recognised in the recent MOU signed alongside Sport England and the GMCA which has evolved out of the Blueprint for Change published back in 2015.

In October, a King’s Fund report described Greater Manchester as the poster child for devolution and a “leading light” in efforts to improve population health at scale.

In the past year, GM Moving has directed significant investment into community groups via the GM Walking and Wheeling Fund and grown momentum around the Active Practice Charter.

A series of insightful and inspirational videos have highlighted the power and benefit of physical activity on mental health, demonstrating the prevention agenda in action.

The year also saw increasing uptake of the Physical Activity Clinical Champions (PACC) training and the signing of a refreshed Memorandum of Understanding with Sport England and other partners.

Beth Sutcliffe, Strategic Director for Health, said:

“GM Moving, alongside our partners, have been working alongside the NHS in Greater Manchester for a number of years, because we know we all have a role to play.

“The momentum is really growing now as our movement for movement spreads across multiple sectors and we begin to deliver on GM’s commitment as a ‘prevention demonstrator’.

“This is the first step to showing what that looks like in practice and we look forward to working with colleagues and partners to further develop this work in the coming months.”

Kate Harding, Strategic Lead for Health Inequalities, said:

“I’m so proud of the team’s work over the past 12 months and am excited for what we can achieve in collaboration with our partners across the system in the year ahead.

“Our thanks must go to all our partners, the ten localities of Greater Manchester, healthcare professionals, and NHS staff who are so supportive of our ambition.

“Movement, physical activity, and sport must be fundamental to delivery of the NHS Ten-Year Plan as it is crucial to staff and patients’ physical and mental wellbeing.”

Downloads

• GM Moving Health Report 2024 25