Kate Yorke Project Manager MECC Bristol North Somerset
Kate Yorke, Project Manager – MECC Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire
Overview • What is Making Every Contact Count? • Links to cancer strategy • Why is MECC relevant for you and how can you get involved?
is Making Every Contact Count? • Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is an approach to behaviour change that supports staff to make most of the everyday interactions that they have with people. MECC encourages staff and volunteers who have contact with the public to use these opportunities to engage in brief conversations on how they might make positive changes to their health or wellbeing. • MECC supports the opportunistic delivery of consistent and concise healthy lifestyle information and enables individuals to engage in conversations about their health at scale across organisations and populations • MECC training in the SW is being delivered using the Wessex Model. Training involves staff developing skills so that they can have healthy conversations using Open Discovery Questions.
High Intensity Interventions Extended Brief Interventions Very Brief Interventions Specialist Practitioners Staff who regularly come into contact with people for 30 minutes or more who are at higher risk Staff who have an opportunity to encourage and support people who’s health and wellbeing could be at risk For everyone in direct contact with the general public To raise awareness motivate and signpost people to help them improve their health and wellbeing. Behaviour change interventions mapped to NICE Behaviour Change: Individual Approaches https: //www. nice. org. uk/Guidance/PH 49
The need for MECC
Benefits of MECC • Staff wellbeing – healthy conversations within the workplace • Patient / Service user benefits – longer, healthier lives • Quality Benefits – Improving quality of services and patient outcomes • Organisational development and change – systemwide prevention and early intervention
MECC Cancer Prevention “We will do this by engaging clinicians, commissioners and local authority providers in new initiatives to change behaviour, increasing public awareness of risk factors and health promotion, especially with vulnerable groups. ”
Early Diagnosis / Living with and beyond Cancer MECC can support early diagnosis by: • Promoting screening uptake • Promoting cancer campaigns • Promoting healthy lifestyles – getting more active, quitting smoking, achieving a healthy, drinking less alcohol
MECC in the South West • MECC in the SW is targeted at people aged 40 and over • We are using the Wessex Model to make MECC about long-term organisational change, focusing on: - Organisational readiness - Staff readiness - Training • Strategies for MECC will be coordinated to support system-wide change
Why is MECC relevant for you and how can you get involved? • MECC will be rolling out in the acute trusts during 2018 • MECC leads will be planning implementation and training, including prioritisation of teams • Make contact with your local MECC lead, identify any priority areas, support staff who are identified for training
Contact Details – BNSSG / Gloucs / Somerset. Kate. yorke@bristol. gov. uk Lbulmer@somerset. gov. uk (Louise) Tracy. Marshall@gloucestershire. gov. uk
Contact Details – BSW Zoe_clifford@bathnes. gov. uk Steve. maddern@wiltshire. gov. uk Rmaclean@swindon. gov. uk EJenkins. Pa@swindon. gov. uk (Emily)
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