RSPH

Are your colleagues feeling tired and unmotivated? Is your work environment getting you down?

Well, good news: healthcare is changing.

Healthcare is no longer about just treating illness; it is an opportunity to promote good health. The workplace is not just about a job; it is also an opportunity for health improvement.

The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), with the support of the Department of Health, has developed a Level 2 Award in Understanding Health Improvement. With so much media attention on healthy eating, quitting smoking and losing weight, most people are more aware than ever about the ways they need to improve their health. A working environment is the perfect place to equip people for this task and to provide support, information and advice on how to change to a healthier lifestyle.

Choosing Health, the Government’s strategy for healthcare, sets out a new vision for our society, where people can get practical support to make healthy lifestyle choices for themselves. This RSPH qualification will give your staff a firm foundation in providing health information and enable them to perform better in their day to day jobs. It can be delivered as a one day course on-site, or your staff can attend one of our many training centres nationwide. Additionally, the RSPH qualification is an ideal stepping stone towards training for a full Health Trainer role.

The RSPH attended the North West Health Trainers Conference on 29th January 2009 in Liverpool to promote the RSPH Level 2 Award in Understanding Health Improvement and we will be exhibiting at the Health and Wellbeing at Work Conference at the Birmingham NEC on 24th and 25th February 2009.
 

For more information please contact Nicolette Smith at nsmith@rsph.org.uk