Table 6.

Costs of delivering the National Exercise Referral Scheme (NERS) with MyWellnessKey (MWK) as part of the feasibility trial.

Annual NERS operational costs 2016-2017		Total (£)a
National costs paid by the Welsh government
	Consultant	2384
	Physical activity specialist (Grade 8a)	10,684
	Administrative support	2530
	Health improvement coordinator	1392
	Meeting costs	300
	Exercise professionals (91.5 Whole Time Equivalent [WTE])	2,631,385
	Coordination and office costs (eg, printing and stationary) for all 22 local authorities	71,848
	Training	64,495
	Travel	80,547
Joint national and local costs
	Co-ordinator salary (23 WTE) funding is split between local authorities (£368,438) and the Welsh Government (£478,319)	846,757
Local authority costs
	Staff management	75,000
	Promotional material	22,000
	Room hire (no charge as covered by session costs)	0
	Attending conferences	2200
	Total NERS annual operating costs (without MWK)	3,811,522
	Participants in NERSb	15,626
	Cost per participant	244
Additional costs related to MWK
	Cost of MWK activity monitor device (based on 88 units purchased for the trial intervention group)	3960 (£45 per monitor×88)
	Cost of MWC annual license fee (professional Web cloud) including Value-Added Tax	3360
	Total MWK operating costs	7320
	Participants in receipt of MWK as part of the trial	88
	Cost per participant for MWK	83
	Total cost per participants for NERS with MWKc	327

^aCosts rounded to the nearest pound (£).

^bParticipants in the NERS based on 15,470 individuals who took up the NERS program from September 2016 to August 2017 including the 156 participants taking part in the trial (intervention n=88, control n=68).

^cCalculation—total annual operational cost per participant and total cost per participant for MWK.