The Workforce Health and

Wellbeing Projects

2012

Making Every Contact Count

(MECC)

• The Health Promoting Workforce Project

• Making every patient contact count

• Whole system approach to cultural change

• Cluster ambition

• CQUIN

Evidence from the

DCHS Health Promoting

Workforce Project has informed the development

of the Regional Toolkit.

Making Every Contact Count is an SHA Cluster Ambition – a

‘must do’ for all NHS Provider

Organisations

All NHS Providers will have to report quarterly to the SHA on

progress

Pathfinder Trust for

Making Every Staff Contact Count

• Funding bid to NHS West Midlands and East –experience of working on MECC agenda

• One year project

• A whole system approach to tackling sickness and absence

• Using a variety of prevention methods

• 500 staff signed up to the Prevention Plan website (a must do)

• Monies only used for staff health and wellbeing

• Closely monitored

Mentorship

• Dame Carol Black & Dr Steve Boorman

Monitoring

• Dr Richard Preece (NICE & NHS Plus)• Reporting to NHS West Midlands and East

• Reporting to DH

UK Preventative Medicine

• US Company

• Not worked with NHS staff in UK

• The Prevention Plan

• Health checks

Reports and initial findings

Contact

linda.saxe@dchs.nhs.uk

07771652957