Every Contact Counts - Public Health Workforce Development

Liverpool Community Health Trust (LCH) launched a whole scale workforce development programme in 2012 that will build capacity and capability within the workforce to deliver health chats/lifestyle brief interventions alongside patient care.The programme is a two year project to provide all Liverpool Community Health staff and volunteers with training, aligned to the NHS Yorkshire and Humber Making Every Contact Count (MECC) Framework.The programme, known as ECC, forms part of LCH’s public health strategy, which sets out the organisation’s vision to embed prevention as part of its service delivery, and to achieve its vision of ‘longer, healthier lives’ for the communities it serves.For more information on this programme, please contact:Rachael Gosling, Public Health Consultant: Rachael.Gosling@liverpoolch.nhs.ukKate Arslanian, Every Contact Counts Trainer: Kate.Arslanian@liverpoolch.nhs.uk