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Editor's letter: True worth

Collaborations with the medical profession and greater aspirations around wellbeing are creating a need for more experts in our sector. It’s time to reboot our thinking around the workforce

Published in Health Club Management 2026 issue 5

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The Young People and Work Review, led by Alan Milburn (www.hcmmag.com/Milburn), warns the UK is at risk of creating a ‘lost generation’, with a million young people not in employment, education or training, despite 84 per cent saying they want work or training opportunities.

Liz Terry is editor of HCM magazine
[email protected]

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features

Editor's letter: True worth

Collaborations with the medical profession and greater aspirations around wellbeing are creating a need for more experts in our sector. It’s time to reboot our thinking around the workforce

Published in Health Club Management 2026 issue 5

Read in digital edition Download PDF Subscribe

Liz Terry is editor of HCM magazine
[email protected]

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Editor's letter

Into the fitaverse

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Ali Jawad

Paralympic powerlifter and founder, Accessercise

“Users can easily identify which facilities in the UK are accessible to the disabled community”

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Hannes Sjöblad

MD, DSruptive

“We want to give our users an implantable tool that allows them to collect their health data at any time and in any setting”

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Jamie Buck

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“We created a solution called AiT Voice, which turns digital data into a spoken audio timetable that connects to phone systems”

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Bold move

“Our results showed a greater than 60 per cent reduction in falls for individuals who actively participated in Bold’s programme”

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Sency’s motion analysis technology is allowing users to check their technique as they exercise. Co-founder and CEO Gal Rotman explains how

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Co-founder, Active Giving

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“We don’t just create the technology and bail – we support our clients’ ongoing hybridisation efforts”

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Anantharaman Pattabiraman

CEO and co-founder, Auro

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“We noticed a big gap in the market – customers needed better insights but also recommendations on what to do, whether that be customer acquisition, content creation, marketing and more”

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