Developing and Evaluating Exercise Services

Designing a physical activity service, leading it and judging whether it worked are core competencies for a sport and exercise medicine (SEM) clinician working beyond individual patients.

They are examined because so many services are built on enthusiasm rather than method. The recurring failure is a scheme that is popular with staff and participants and unable to show that it changed anything: no baseline was captured, no comparison existed, and the only data collected were attendance figures.

This page covers building a service on identified need, evaluating it properly, and what leading one involves.