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Make every contact count by opportunistically asking about healthy food choices

  • Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is an all-Wales approach to behaviour change, utilising day-to-day interactions, to support people to make positive changes that improve their physical and mental health and well-being.
  • Consider encouraging practice staff to acquire MECC skills. For MECC e-learning (to level 1), see here  [ESR or other login/ registration required]. For MECC training contacts by health board, see here [intranet].
  • Brief intervention by staff in regular contact with people who could use some support to make an informed choice around healthy eating is promoted by NICE guidance (PH49). 
  • Making a difference (PHW 2016) cites evidence from the WHO that offering brief advice on diet is quite cost-effective (relative to very cost-effective population-level strategies).