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Winner 

Breathe Eating Disorder Services

Managing eating disorders in communities is complex but at Breathe, their bespoke programme provides a resource where recovery coaches are contactable and can support clients on a daily basis. 

It’s a true honour to have been shortlisted by the Royal Society for Public Health for the category of Healthier Lifestyles. Breathe Therapies are aiming to reduce the impact of eating disorders on individuals through our innovative early intervention programme. It’s so encouraging for the team to have our hard work recognised!

Shelley Perry, Clinical Director and RMN, Breathe Therapies. 

 

Finalist

YOURhealth Prevention

YOURhealth aims to tackle a wide range of health inequalities across a rural, isolated and severely deprived area including transient and migrant populations addressing social, cultural, economic and environmental determinants of health. The locations include East Riding of Yorkshire, Hull ,North Yorkshire Districts of Scarborough and Ryedale totalling 3,300 SQ miles.

An excellent example of a well-considered, inclusive and proactive health improvement service. The service is based on a robust training framework, which is in turn built on clear, evidence-based behaviour change theory. The intervention successfully engages groups that are often under-represented, from fishermen to migrants. 

The assessors

 

It has been great for our team to see their hard work be noticed further afield. We are thrilled to have received this nomination our team has worked tirelessly to help others improve their health and wellbeing over the past months. I hope this gives them a well-deserved boost and well done for their ongoing hard work. Congratulations to all the other nominees, we’re looking forward to the ceremony in October.

Ryan Nicholls, Team Leader of the Yourhealth Lifestyle, Wellbeing and Prevention Service at Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

Finalist

Salford Health Improvement Service and PDSA

Salford Health Improvement Service partnered with the leading veterinary charity, People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA), to increase uptake of NHS Health Checks in socioeconomically deprived communities in Manchester. Through a novel, One Health partnership, dog owners were successfully encouraged to take up an NHSHC while their dog was receiving a free PDSA health check.

A truly innovative project, which makes use of a creative partnership approach to significantly improve access to and uptake of the NHS Health Check, by offering it alongside free pet health checks. The project is highly replicable and has proven success in engaging with its target audience, in an area experiencing high levels of health inequalities.

The assessors

We are delighted that our innovative approach to increasing uptake of NHS Health Checks through engaging with dog owners has been shortlisted for an RSPH Health and Wellbeing Award.
Our two organisations are each striving to improve health and wellbeing, for pets and people, in socially disadvantaged communities. By collaborating, both with each other and the Salford Dog Warden Service, we have been able to motivate dog owners to attend a PDSA PetCheck for their dog and, while there, access an NHS Health Check that they wouldn’t have done otherwise. 

While improving pet wellbeing, our partnership has leveraged people’s interest in their dog’s wellbeing to engage them in their own health. Our shortlisting gives recognition to the One Health concept – linking the health and wellbeing of people, animals and our shared environment – and the way that novel One Health partnerships can realise real health and wellbeing benefits in communities.”

Debbie Cordingley, Health Improvement Officer, East Salford Health Improvement Team and Sean Wensley FRCVS, Senior Veterinary Surgeon, PDSA