Walking and cycling: local measures to promote walking and cycling as forms of travel or recreation: Consultation on the draft guidance and evidence reviews

The Department of Health asked the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to produce guidance on Walking and cycling: local measures to promote walking and cycling as forms of travel or recreation. See the scope for more information.

All registered stakeholders for the above public health programme guidance are invited to comment on the provisional recommendations during an 8 week consultation with stakeholders.

Organisations not registered as stakeholders are not able to comment. Please note that there is time for you to register as a stakeholder. For further information about how your organisation can become a stakeholder, please see: Stakeholder registration

Please note - the provisional recommendations presented here do not constitute NICE formal guidance on this topic. The recommendations are provisional and may change after consultation.

This consultation will take place between 24 April – 5pm on 19 June 2012

The draft guidance sets out the provisional recommendations that have been developed.
Please note - Comments forms with attachments such as research articles, letters or leaflets will not be accepted. If comments forms do have attachments they will be returned without being read. If the stakeholder resubmits the form without attachments, it must be by the consultation deadline.

Consultation Documents:

Walking and cycling: local measures to promote walking and cycling as forms of travel or recreation: Draft Guidance

Walking and cycling: local measures to promote walking and cycling as forms of travel or recreation: (Consultation on the draft guidance: Stakeholder comments form

Review 1: ‘Systematic review and narrative synthesis of the effectiveness of local interventions to promote cycling and walking for recreational and travel purposes’, and ‘Evidence statements on the effectiveness of local interventions to promote cycling and walking for recreational and travel purposes’

Review 2: ‘Synthesis of evidence relating to barriers and facilitators to implementing interventions that promote cycling and walking, and to carrying out cycling and walking for recreational and travel purposes’.

Economic modeling: ‘Interventions to promote cycling and walking for recreational and travel purposes: Health economic and modelling report’.

Points to consider in the consultation:

• Points or areas that are not covered, but which appear to fall within the scope of the guidance.
• Potential inconsistencies or any disagreement with the Public Health Intervention Advisory Committee’s interpretation of the evidence and its applicability.
• The practical value of the provisional recommendations.
• Issues of presentation and style, including how the provisional recommendations have been grouped and ordered.
• Whether the right organisations and individuals have been identified under ‘Who should take action’ for each recommendation.
• Do you think this guidance could be improved to better promote equality of opportunity relating to age, disability, gender, gender identity, ethnicity, religion and belief, sexual orientation or socio-economic status? If so,  please include details of:
  • Which particular parts of the guidance you think affect equality of opportunity
  • Why and how you think equality of opportunity is affected.
• In addition are there are reasons why any of the recommendations in the guidance may result an increase in inequality of opportunity relating to age, disability, gender, gender identity, ethnicity, religion and belief, sexual orientation or socio-economic status?

How to submit your comments:

Please provide all responses to this draft guidance using the Stakeholder Comments Form (ensuring all relevant fields are completed, including your organisation's name) and forwarding this by 5pm on Tuesday 19 June 2012 at the very latest to walkingandcycling@nice.org.uk

The Institute is unable to accept:

• More than one response per stakeholder organisation
• Comments received after the consultation deadline
• Comments that are not submitted on a stakeholder comments form
• Confidential information or other material that you would not wish to be made public
• Comments forms with attachments such as research articles, letters or leaflets. If comments forms do have attachments they will be returned without being read. If the stakeholder resubmits the form without attachments, it must be by the consultation deadline.

What will happen to your comments?

• All comments (with the exception of personal, individual comments and late comments) will be sent to the project team at the end of the consultation
• Comments from registered stakeholders will be formally responded to by the project team and posted on the NICE website after the final guidance is published.
• No action will be taken upon receipt of personal, individual comments and late comments.

PLEASE NOTE: The Institute reserves the right to summarise and edit comments received during consultations, or not to publish them at all, where in the reasonable opinion of the Institute, the comments are voluminous, publication would be unlawful or publication would be otherwise inappropriate.

Supporting evidence:

The following evidence was used by the Programme development group in developing the provisional recommendations. Please see appendix C (‘The Evidence’) of the draft guidance for further details.

Evidence reviews:

Review 1: ‘Systematic review and narrative synthesis of the effectiveness of local interventions to promote cycling and walking for recreational and travel purposes’, and ‘Evidence statements on the effectiveness of local interventions to promote cycling and walking for recreational and travel purposes’

Review 2: ‘Synthesis of evidence relating to barriers and facilitators to implementing interventions that promote cycling and walking, and to carrying out cycling and walking for recreational and travel purposes’.

Economic modeling: ‘Interventions to promote cycling and walking for recreational and travel purposes: Health economic and modelling report’.

In addition a number of expert papers were submitted to the committee

Expert paper 1 ‘Paving the way for everyday walking: Living Streets interventions and public health’

Expert paper 2 ‘Making walking and cycling normal: key findings from the understanding walking and cycling research project’

Expert paper 3 ‘Programmes to promote cycling – evidence for NICE from CTC’

Expert paper 4 ‘Evidence to NICE PDG walking and cycling: experience from Bristol City Council and cycling city (2008–2011)’

Expert paper 5 ‘Submission to the NICE programme development group on walking and cycling’

Expert paper 6 ‘Effectiveness of interventions to increase cycling’.