HEALTH organisations in Bradford are hoping to set a good example by encouraging their staff to cycle to work.
They are taking part in a ‘bike friendly business’ scheme run by West Yorkshire cycling programme CityConnect, which offers employers advice and small grants to help them embrace commuter cycling.
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke’s and Bradford Districts Clinical Commissioning Group, which runs GP services, are among those taking part.
Physical inactivity costs the UK an estimated £7.4bn a year when the impact on the NHS, social care, sickness absence from work and other factors are taken into account.
Research suggests if 10 per cent of journeys were taken by bike, it would save the NHS £250 million a year.
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