Live Well SuffolkDan Ford

Senior Community Health Coach Ipswich + Felixstowe

What is Live Well Suffolk?

•A free healthy lifestyle service, commissioned by NHS Suffolk•A 3-4 year service•Operates on two levels:

– Universal service for the whole County (except Waveney)

– Targeted service, with more intensive interventions where most needed

Service components

Targeted service +AC

•Adult weight management programmes•Health trainer service

Access criteria

- Adult weight management: BMI of >30 or >28 with a co-morbidity

- Child weight management: >91st percentile

- CHC 1:1 : no BMI or weight criteria but live in an MSOA or AC

- CHC groups: no BMI/weight criteria but live in an MSOA or AC

- Smoking cessation: universal

Specialist Stop Smoking• We offer intensive one to one and group

support for those wishing to stop smoking

• Advice for specialist groups such as pregnancy and mental health etc

• Pharmacotherapy on prescription

• Support for those advisors working within primary care and pharmacies

• Training for brief intervention and Level 2 advisors

• Annual Updates for smoking cessation advisors

Adult Weight Management

Lose Weight With Live Well Suffolk

• 12 week specialist programme• Week 1 and week 12 – 1:1 interview• Weeks 2 – 11 group intervention

• Topics include:• Psychological eating habits• Physical activity• Crash dieting

All group sessions include some sort of physical activity

5% Weight

Loss

Key Messages

• Sustained weight lose (no quick fixes)• 5% weight loss• Exercise v Food• Practical tips and sessions to help with

weight loss such as cook and eat session + store tour

• Active minutes• Screen time

Lose Weight With Live Well Suffolk for Children

Lose Weight with Live Well Suffolk for Kids

• Specialist Child Weight Management programme working closely with the percentile charts

1:1 Interview with parent and child

Group 1:1

Fortnightly sessions over 16 weeks + 2 follow up sessions to complete 6

months of support

5 sessions over a period of 6 months

Parent and child together (learning and PA sessions)

Parent and child together (Learning sessions)

Works closely with the Lose Weight with LWS for kids specialist booklet

Works closely with the Lose Weight with LWS for kids specialist booklet

Monthly follow ups after intervention

Community Health Coach Team

What do we do?• Live Well Suffolk Community Health Coaches can offer expert support and

advice on a wide variety of health related issues. Our clinics and courses are targeted to the areas most at need in regards to health intervention

Our work includes-• Helping clients to stop smoking through 1 to 1 or group provision• Supporting clients through a 1 to 1, 6 session personal health plan. These

can address a wide array of issues from basic weight management, improving diet and increasing physical activity.

• Guiding clients through 6 week physical activity or cook and eat courses with bolted on personal health plans

• Signposting on to other relevant services and opportunities

Contact Us

•Tel            01473 229292 •Fax           01473 212463•Address    Adelphi House, 8 Turret Lane, Ipswich, IP4 1DL•Web         www.livewellsuffolk.org.uk •Facebook Live Well Suffolk•Twitter @Livewellsuffolk

dan.ford@livewellsuffolk.org.uk

Any Questions?