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Empowering Conversations for Positive Change

MeOC is a simple conversation approach to influence positive health and lifestyle choices, focusing on prevention, improving lives, and redressing health inequalities. It is a structured, tiered approach suitable for all, creating opportunities for behavior change. Learn about MeCC and Keep Well MeOC for holistic wellbeing improvement. Find support and training resources to start making every opportunity count today.

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Empowering Conversations for Positive Change

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  1. Making Every Opportunity Count MeOC

  2. What is MeOC ? A brief, simple conversation to influence positive health or lifestyle choices. In fact it’s really very simple........

  3. Groundwork MeCC + Keep Well + MeOC 2012 Prevent + Improve + Change + Redress Health Inequalities

  4. 3 tier approach 3. Structured wellbeing conversation – complex needs Complex 2. Specific conversation e.g. Work/employability/alcohol Specific 1. Light touch conversation Brief

  5. What MeOC is definitely Not • Staff becoming counsellors, specialists or experts • Another task to add to an already busy working day • Telling people how they must live their life

  6. It’s also about........ • prevention rather than cure • improving peoples lives • changing society for the better • redressing health inequalities • saving money

  7. Health inequalities

  8. Who could/should do MeOC? Everyone

  9. Here are a couple of reasons why it has something to do with you ........ this would create 12 new opportunities to change a lifestyle behaviour. 1 person had 1 lifestyle conversation per month for one year

  10. Case study example =

  11. Case study example

  12. Your ideas ?

  13. Here’s some good news Research shows that when one person makes a change the ripples spread outwards and other people around them, the family and friends, are more likely to change as a result

  14. If we don’t raise health related issues?...... • We miss out on a great opportunity to give people choice to think about what they are doing and whether they want to consider change

  15. Is there an elephant in the room?

  16. What if....... • The person doesn't want to talk? • Is not fluent in English? • Is tearful? • Is in a hurry? • Is not telling you the truth? • It’s not appropriate?

  17. Most common health & wellbeing issues? • Mental health • Smoking • Healthy weight • Drinking alcohol • Physical activity • Money

  18. You don’t have to know everything You're not alone

  19. It just takes 00:00:30 00:03:00 seconds minutes

  20. So why wouldn't you ?

  21. E-learning – 40 minutes Health Behaviour Change Level 1 : elearning.healthscotland.com AT learning - Welfare Reform : www.at-learning.org  AT learning – Making Every Opportunity Count (MeOC) – Module 1 - Brief Encounters : www.at-learning.org

  22. MeOC contacts Laura Sutherland - laura.sutherland@nhs.net Susan Johnston - susan.johnston9@nhs.net Pennie McGuire - pmcguire@nhs.net We are here to you and offer continuing support and advice

  23. Easy tools to help

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