‘Make every contact with a health and social care professional a health promoting contact with clear advice, support and sign-posting to appropriate service to prevent illness or recurrence of illness’ NICE
The East Midlands Guidance was intended to be a practical resource to support all health and social care organisations to meet the challenge of preventing poor health and reducing the burden of lifestyle related disease by promoting health and wellbeing.
Seven pilot sites across the East Midlands were selected to test out and critique the Guidance. The pilot sites were asked to find a way of building the relevant components of the guidance into their core business at a strategic and operational level, these are: Engaging and empowering the public; Staff readiness; Organisational readiness. The report will be used to inform the revision of the Guidance, which will be made available in February 2012. The Guidance will be presented as a practical resource that enables organisations to navigate through the steps that need to be taken and how to use the available resources to build capacity within their organisation to promote health and wellbeing.
This report summarises the findings and recommendations of the pilot:
More information on this East Midlands Behaviour Guidance is provided within these pages.
The Hub has set up these pages to:
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offer a central point for information on behaviour change
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engage the health workforce in shaping the guidance
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facilitate the sharing of learning and best practice through a community of practice
These pages are aimed at all members of the health and social care workforce across the East Midlands responsible for strategic planning, commissioning and service provision within a range of settings including the NHS, Local Authority, the Voluntary and Community sector or Social Enterprise.
