CPSC Academy Meeting 3: Having Healthier Conversations - Making Every Contact Count (part 2)

Academy Series November 2018

Having Healthier Conversations – Making Every Contact Count (part 2)

This is part 2 of the Making Every Contact Count training for those who attended the September Academy series however please do come along if you did not manage to attend the previous event as there is still much that will be helpful to learn.

In our November Academy series, we will provide you with the second part of the healthy conversation skills training for the Making Every Contact Count (MECC) programme. Local award-winning training company Pharmacy Complete, will be leading the events as MECC accredited trainers.

So much of what we do now, and even more so in the future, is helping people make a change. This might be changing a lifestyle behaviour that is negatively impacting their health, being more compliant to their medicines or simply changing something that will help them manage their long-term condition more effectively. And whilst we spend a lot of time talking to people about their health, we frequently feel awkward, embarrassed and don’t know what to say.

We are very used to advising people what to do and yet we know from the evidence that telling people what to do is not the most effective way to help them to change.

MECC is supports behavioural change in obesity, smoking, activity, mental wellbeing and alcohol and at this meeting we will be putting a focus on obesity. Many of our September attendees have highlighted this area as particularly challenging to engage someone in a conversation and yet it is becoming a huge issue and impacts the physical and mental health of many.

Please join us to make more of a difference and receive the following benefits:

• Achieve your RSPH MECC accreditation [for those who attended in September and completed the e-learning modules]
• A certificate of attendance will be available for those who have not undertaken the first module [we recommend you complete the e-learning modules prior to attending]
• Complete a Revalidation CPD entry; this learning is a great topic for Revalidation and we will guide you through how to do this
• Further consolidate your learning, developing skills in asking Open Discovery Questions to help move the conversation on so that an individual is more likely to implement a change.

Dates and locations (on the CPSC Academy Events calendar):

• Registration: 6:30pm
• Event starts: 7:15pm
• Event ends: 9:30pm

This event is FREE to attend and includes a two course hot meal and refreshments

Bookings need to be made through Eventbrite (see link below to book this event)