Health Training and Education
Improving the knowledge and skills of health and care professionals across Lancashire in preventing illness, protecting health and promoting wellbeing.
Health Coaching. Day 1 & 2
This interactive 2 day training supports practitioners across all health, care, community and voluntary sectors effectively apply health coaching in their roles.
The programme builds on existing skills and introduces practical techniques to enhance person-centred conversations and empower behaviour change.
- Delivered in person
- 2 day session – attendance to both days is essential.
- Carried out across Blackburn, Preston, Blackpool and Morecambe areas.
MECC 90 min Familiarisation / Refresher
The MECC 90 minute online familiarisation session is delivered to provide colleagues with an understanding of what the MECC approach is (Making Every Contact Count) and how we can apply it to conversations within the community to support health and wellbeing.
It focuses on brief conversations as part of the everyday contact we have with people and how we can support them within a variety of health and wellbeing topics e.g. smoking, physical activity and diet.
Supported Self-Management
Supported Self-Management Training (SSM, formerly known as PAM) can make a valuable contribution to assessing a person’s ability to self care at any given time. This training helps support next steps on what would be needed to increase an individuals levels of knowledge, skills and confidence in order to improve their health and wellbeing outcomes.
It can be used to tailor interventions to individual needs, significantly increasing the likelihood that people will adopt behaviours that contribute to better health.
This training is delivered over a 2.5 hour online workshop.
Making Every Contact Count for Physical Activity (MECC for PA)
MECC for Physical Activity helps individuals build confidence to include purposeful physical activity conversations in everyday interactions. Aligned with the NHS CORE20PLUS5 framework and national Physical Activity Strategy, the course promotes increased activity levels and helps reduce health inequalities such as heart disease and stroke.
The training develops knowledge and skills to encourage behaviour change, share healthy lifestyle messages, and signpost to useful resources.
- Open to anyone, especially workplace health champions or those supporting wellbeing strategies.
- This training is delivered over a 2.5 hour online workshop.
Personalised Health Care Training:
At Active Lancashire, we take great pride in our partnership with the NHS Integrated Care Board, delivering health coaching, Making Every Contact Count (MECC), and Patient Activation Measures training.
What is Making Every Contact Count? A Chat to Change.
Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is the opportunistic delivery of consistent and concise healthy lifestyle information via brief or very brief behaviour change interventions, enabling individuals to engage in conversations about their health.
MECC provides an opportunity to discuss health and wellbeing lifestyle pathways which can support and enable behaviour change for key risk factors including smoking, alcohol, healthy weight, physical activity and mental health and may link to local social prescribing offers.
Why are we doing this?
Many long-term diseases affecting our population are closely linked to known behavioural risk factors, with 40% of the UK’s disability adjusted life years lost being attributable to tobacco, hypertension, alcohol, being overweight or being physically inactive.
Our public and community services provide thousands of opportunities every day to work with and support people in living the best lives they can and in accessing the services and help they need to do this.
What are the benefits for your staff, service and patients?
Implementing Making Every Contact Count will require training and up-skilling of staff with the knowledge, skills and resources necessary to support these lifestyle behaviour changes.
Frontline staff and volunteers routinely have thousands of day-to-day contacts each year with service users, and patients and MECC is about using these to empower and support everyone – including staff themselves – to make healthier choices to achieve positive health outcomes.
For organisations, MECC will provide staff with the leadership, environment, training and information they need to deliver the MECC approach.
For staff, MECC can provide the competence and confidence to deliver health and wellbeing messages. This helps encourage people to change their way of thinking/behaviour(s) and can direct them to local services that can support them.
For individuals, MECC means seeking support when needed and taking action to improve their own health and wellbeing.
Our collaborative efforts have a clear, unified goal: enhancing the health and wellbeing of the people within our community. We believe in providing equal access to healthcare services, ensuring that everyone receives the same high-quality care and
treatment outcomes.
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About MECC
MECC Familiarisation
The MECC 90 minute online familiarisation session is delivered to provide colleagues with an understanding of what the MECC approach is (Making Every Contact Count) and how we can apply it to conversations within the community to support health and wellbeing.
Supported Self Management
This training helps support next steps on what would be needed to increase an individuals levels of knowledge, skills and confidence in order to improve their health and wellbeing outcomes.
Training Courses:
