Colleagues
The HSE Mid West Community Healthcare Health Promotion and Improvement team asks you to join them by Making Every Contact Count with your patients/service users by starting a conversation on lifestyle behaviour change.
We are calling on all frontline staff to sign up today for the Making Every Contact Count programme by:
- Completing the Making Every Contact Count e-learning modules by registering HERE
- Attending the Enhance Your Brief Intervention Skills Workshop. The team have announced their two final dates for the year for the Enhance Your Brief Intervention Skills virtual workshop, taking place on:
Tuesday 9th November 9:30am-12:30pm
Wednesday 1st December 9:30am-12:30pm
To register for either date above, CLICK HERE. Early sign up is required as there are limited spaces available on both dates.
Please note, you must complete the e-learning modules before attending the workshop.
What is Making Every Contact Count?
Making Every Contact Count is about encouraging and helping people to make healthier choices to achieve positive long-term behaviour change. Frontline staff can achieve this by conducting a brief conversation with a patient/service user, focusing on health behaviour change. This programme aims to support and upskill staff to conduct brief interventions and to encourage patients to make healthier lifestyle choices by focusing on health behaviours (alcohol use, unhealthy eating, tobacco use, physical inactivity) that research strongly tells us are associated with poor health outcomes and chronic disease.
The programme consists of 6 e-learning modules (30 minutes/module) and a 2.5 hour Enhance Your Skills workshop that can be conducted virtually or face-to-face.
Watch this short video to find out more about Making Every Contact Count. Further details on the training programme, including registration, are available via https://www.hse.ie/eng/about/who/healthwellbeing/making-every-contact-count/training-programme/