{"id":10034,"date":"2019-05-03T10:18:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T09:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stockportccg.nhs.uk\/practicehub\/?p=10034"},"modified":"2019-05-03T10:19:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T09:19:45","slug":"practice-parkrun-challenge-1-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/news\/practice-parkrun-challenge-1-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice Parkrun Challenge &#8211; 1 June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 15.75pt; background: white; margin: 15.0pt 0cm .0001pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #454545;\">Last year Parkrun launched the<strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/email.parkrun.com\/t\/i-l-plixkk-pekknji-r\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ffa300;\">parkrun practice initiative<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/strong>with the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.75pt; background: white; margin: 15.0pt 0cm .0001pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #454545;\">Since then nearly 800 practices have linked with local parkruns, supporting their staff and patients to walk, run, or volunteer and to get involved with their local community on a Saturday morning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.75pt; background: white; margin: 15.0pt 0cm .0001pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #454545;\">Building on this, and the NHS70 parkrun celebrations in June last year, RCGP and Parkrun are organising a GP parkrun pledge day.\u00a0 The aim is to get 1,000 GPs and many more practice staff to pledge to participate (walk, run, volunteer) at 5k parkruns across the UK on <strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';\">Saturday 1 June 2019<\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.75pt; background: white; margin: 15.0pt 0cm .0001pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #454545;\">As well as encouraging GPs and practice staff to take part and bring friends\/patients along, the event will celebrate the first anniversary of the parkrun practice initiative, raise awareness of parkrun in the health sector and help to encourage sustained participation by those who are least active or who have health conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.75pt; background: white; margin: 15.0pt 0cm .0001pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #454545;\">The concept of the GP parkrun pledge day is also being supported by high-profile figures within the health sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.75pt; background: white; margin: 15.0pt 0cm .0001pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #454545;\">Parkrun are in the process of developing the online pledge platform which will be hosted on the RCGP website which will be shared with Practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.75pt; background: white; margin: 15.0pt 0cm 15.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #454545;\">For more information and to find your nearest Parkrun visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parkrun.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.parkrun.org.uk.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n   ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parkrun has partnered with the Royal College of General Practitioners to launch a Practice Pledge for 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":590,"featured_media":10035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,9,63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10036,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10034\/revisions\/10036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}