Equipment supplier Life Fitness has struck up a partnership with online-based Refer-all as part of efforts to provide K:A Leisure in North Ayrshire with an improved GP referrals system.

Refer-all will provide K:A Leisure - which provides sport and leisure services in North Ayrshire - an integrated approach to the management of referral schemes by tracking participants' exercise activity. Each activity will then be reported to GPs and the referral team at K:A Leisure in real time.

K:A Leisure currently receives more than 1,000 referrals each year at its centres.

Andy McLaughlan, public sector account manager, Life Fitness, said: "We're committed to providing long-term support and service to our customers and the already thriving exercise referral programme will be taken to new heights with the new Life Fitness equipment that we're installing."

The service is part of a new contract secured by Life Fitness, which will also see it supplying its latest equipment to four of the trust's leisure sites - the Magnum Leisure Centre, Auchenharvie Leisure Centre, Garnock Swimming Pool and Vikingar.