Clinicians can feel frustrated by their patients’ lifestyle-related illnesses?
Lifestyle advice often seems to fall upon deaf ears?
It can be a struggle to start change conversations with patients?
Empower change by saying it differently
Exploring how using ‘Change Talk’ and avoiding ‘Sustain Talk’ can help someone improve their lifestyle decisions and help with e.g. losing weight, stopping smoking, diet change, increased exercise.
Learn how you really can empower patients to make effective lifestyle changes, reduce their risk of cancer and improve their health and well being.
Our practical and interactive half-day masterclass has been designed by healthcare professionals for healthcare professionals. Doctors, nurses, HCAs, pharmacists and allied health professionals working in the NHS will all find this course helps boost their confidence, skills and knowledge in change behaviour talk.
We help build the skills to open conversations with patients about lifestyle and cancer prevention. Learn tips and tricks to help patients unlock and lead on their own change behaviour.
Course Objectives:
To understand your role and the wider health care team’s role in supporting lifestyle changes
To recognise barriers to change – clinicians and patients
To understand the significance of lifestyle changes to help prevent cancer and other conditions
To improve knowledge, confidence and skills on having effective and empowering ‘change behaviour’ conversations
Understand the principles of using Motivational Interviewing techniques
Interpersonal skills - sharing responsibility with patients
Our training is enjoyable, practical and uses a mix of presentation, interactive peer-learning practice, video demonstration and informal discussion.
Example agenda:
Motivational Interviewing
Introductions, objectives and welcome
Principles of Motivational Interviewing
Interactive seminar and group work
People’s experiences and roles
Examples of Effective Change Behaviour
Blocks, challenges, enablers for Change Conversations
Top tips for tackling lifestyle changes such as: obesity, healthy eating, inactivity, alcohol, smoking
Cancer Prevention: The Evidence
Simulated case scenarios
Consolidation of learning
Endorsed by: Diabetes UK
