P-STEP
Minimise your pollution exposure while maximising your walking potential
with P-STEP
P-STEP - Personalised Space Technology Exercise Platform
P-STEP provides health guidance to people with long-term health conditions by providing air quality information on walking routes they undertake. The P-STEP app combines expert clinical and exercise advice – which takes into account a person's long-term health condition. The app gathers data from satellites to provide users of the app with real-time information on the air quality and weather when walking outdoors.
About P-STEP
The P-STEP team, led by Professor André Ng from the University of Leicester and Leicester University Hospitals NHS Trust, were awarded £1.7 million by the UK Space Agency to develop a new mobile application. The money was awarded by the UK Space Agency in partnership with NHS England and the European Space Agency (ESA) for the NHS’ 70th birthday, which will help to address a key NHS 70th Anniversary Challenge - managing long term conditions (LTC).
In The Press
The new mobile application – Personalised Space Technology Exercise Platform (P-STEP) – will provide guidance based on space data combined with artificial intelligence to deliver personalised, disease specific exercise advice with pollution readings up to 10-metres resolution for people with long-term health conditions.
Professor Ng commented
“Whilst we know physical activity is good for many patients with long term conditions including heart and lung diseases, clinicians are often anxious about recommending exercise and often unable to prescribe accurate and effective exercise for their patients. We are really pleased to have been given the NHS/UK Space Agency Award which enables us to harness our expertise in Space, Health, and Environment sciences here at Leicester.
We will develop a patient-centred mobile app that takes in satellite data with unique resolution including that of air quality that delivers precise guideline-based exercise advice tailored to their condition and ability. This greatly enhances the confidence of both healthcare professionals to prescribe and patients to put into practice, effective physical activity which improves well-being and reduces healthcare utilisation.
Do you have a long-term health condition?
The P-STEP team have compiled a range of helpful resources for those with long term health conditions, including diabetes, COPD, and asthma, who want to begin exercising.
