1. Prevention and Wellbeing

Outputs & Products

Description

Date
Launched

2023-2024

Supporting Healthy Behaviours:

- A Guide for General Practice

- A Guide for Optometry

The resources discuss key health behaviours, in relation to smoking, alcohol, healthy weight, physical activity, and preventing type 2 diabetes, and specifically include: 

• Areas for quality improvement activities

• Links to training and resources for the workforce

• Brief information about the benefits of adopting healthy behaviours and harms of unhealthy behaviours Signposting information for individuals to access further support.

January 2024

Social Prescribing - Public Health Wales

Plan on a Page Social Prescribing 2023-2024

One of the key priorities identified for 2023/24 will be to support the ongoing development and implementation of the national framework for social prescribing, providing leadership to the system and targeted support to primary and community care to appreciate it’s potential. This document outlines the plan for 2023 – 2024.

Plan on a Page Obesity Prevention 2023-2024

This project is intended to deliver once for Wales activities which will support local activity.  This document outlines the plan for 2023 – 2024.

Plan on a Page Mental Health and Wellbeing 2023-2024

Phase 2 of the project will develop on the work conducted during 2022/23 This document shows the plan and focus for 2023 – 2024.

All Wales Diabetes Prevention Programme Plan on a Page 2023-2024

This project was scoped to develop a ‘Once for Wales’ approach to providing a brief intervention to people at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes and has been rolled out in 14 AWDPP funded cluster areas. This document outlines the plan for 2023 – 2024.

2022-2023

A National Review of Primary Care Mental Health Demand and Activity 

This National Review was commissioned to provide a greater understanding on key themes for providing mental health support in Primary Care, demand & activity, variation in NHS Primary Care Mental Health Service provision and third-sector mental health support at Primary Care level.

SPPC Fund 2022-23 Obesity Prevention Projects Benefits and Outcomes

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the benefits and outcomes that are anticipated from the obesity prevention projects. Ten projects to address obesity prevention are being developed across the 7 health boards.  

Inverse Care Law Update Report 2021

This report includes a review of the published international evidence for CVD health check programmes; Analysis of programme data from 2013-2019 held in the SAIL Databank where available for Aneurin Bevan UHB, Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB and Bridgend; Reflections on the ICL Programme from both UHBs; Key learning points and conclusions.

Social Prescribing Interfaces

Through understanding the specific interfaces between social prescribing, health and care services, and wellbeing activities and community assets, this paper aims to inform Social Prescribing Interfaces 5 strategic direction and policy development, to support and improve the wellbeing of both current and future generations in Wales

All Wales Diabetes Prevention Programme Intervention Protocol

The All Wales Diabetes Prevention Programme (AWDPP), led by Public Health Wales, offers targeted support to people who are at an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, with the aim of preventing them from developing this condition. This document supports the consistent implementation of the AWDPP

Mental Health & Primary Care

This video provides an overview of the national findings regarding understanding and addressing the availability and effectiveness of services for Mental Health issues presenting at Primary Care

Primary Care Obesity Prevention Action Plan 2022-2024

This initial two-year action plan, which covers April 2022 - March 2024, is designed to support the implementation of the primary and community care elements of the adult All Wales Weight Management Pathway (AWWMP), in line with the Healthy Weight Healthy Wales (HWHW) Delivery Plan 2022-24. Actions within this plan have been grouped into four priority once-for-Wales aims.

2021-2022

Developing the Intervention for the All Wales Diabetes Prevention Programme

This paper describes

• the AWDPP Intervention design, in particular: the inclusion and exclusion criteria, equitable access to the intervention and the minimum dataset needed

• The key elements of work which underpinned and informed the final AWDPP intervention design and promote its robustness

The key decisions made in the AWDPP intervention design and the rationale for these decisions.

The primary care needs of people living with overweight and obesity in Wales (summary)

This healthcare needs assessment (HCNA) provides an overview of the primary and community healthcare needs of adults of working age (18 – 64 years old) in Wales who are living with overweight or obesity. Utilising quantitative and qualitative evidence, this HCNA will help to inform the strategic direction for primary and community care to support prevention of obesity across Wales.

Behavioural Insights from the Primary Care Workforce on Supporting Weight Management: Summary

Behavioural insights from the primary care workforce on supporting weight management – a report highlighting findings from a behavioural insight survey and focus groups to understand the perspectives of the frontline in supporting weight management

Behavioural Insights from the Primary Care Workforce on Supporting Weight Management

Accompanying slide set

Understanding social prescribing in Wales: a mixed methods study (final report)

There are multiple models of social prescribing working in Wales with practitioner roles based in places such as local authorities, third sector, housing, higher education, and primary care; and social prescribing activities most commonly based within third sector and community spaces. The aim of this work is to understand the landscape of social prescribing activity across Wales, and where possible, to quantify and describe its functions.

2019-2020

Rehabilitation
Guidance for
Vulnerable Groups

This paper is designed to support understanding and inform planning of the additional demand for rehabilitation services for vulnerable groups identified
as having a higher risk of the impacts of COVID-19, by describing their typical expected health care needs.
It is the first in a series from the Strategic Programme for Primary Care with a focus on a preventative, pro-active whole system approach to the provision of rehabilitation, which prioritizes services at or close to home and enables citizens throughout Wales to live as independently as possible for as long as possible.
It is aligned to the Rehabilitation Framework for continuity and recovery and informed by the principles of:

• A Healthier Wales

• The Primary Care Model for Wales

• The Allied Health Professions (AHP) Framework: Looking Forward Together

Resources to
address:

Prevention of Infectious disease; 

Screening. 

Targeted communication products for clusters to use. The aim is to support reduction of variation between clusters and making overall improvements in vaccination and screening programme uptake.

2018-2019

Primary Care Needs Assessment Tool (PCNA)

Once-for-Wales online tool to support action planning, based on review of data on local needs and evidence-informed improvement options; a national template for prioritised topics and functionality to deliver a more consistent approach to assessing and responding to identified needs.