Image – Left to Right – Angela Donaldson, Sarah Brothers, Jacqueline Martin, Claire McCririck
The Health Promoting Health Service (HPHS) has recently welcomed three new colleagues to their team.
HPHS is a settings based approach, aligned to Realistic Medicine, and has four key outcomes set by the Chief Medical Officer. It is a framework rooted in prevention and health improvement aimed at acute and community hospital settings.
The overall aim is to help reduce health inequalities by looking at the wider determinants of health that are often underpinning ill-health. There is a focus on a holistic, person-centred and shared decision making approach.
To strengthen those aims, the team has expanded to add three new health improvement seniors, to support HPHS work within the three acute sites.
There’s also been a number of staff sessions held across the three hospitals that work towards understanding how staff are feeling and what they would like to be developed to support their wellbeing. This will help to shape the forthcoming staff health and wellbeing strategy.
Jacqueline Martin, programme manager, HPHS, said: “We are delighted to welcome Angela Donaldson, Claire McCririck and Sarah Brothers to the team as Health Improvement Seniors for HPHS.
“All three new team members bring a wealth of experience with them from their previous NHS and third sector posts, and their work will focus on the acute hospital settings.
““The team are currently focusing on Staff Health and Wellbeing, which is Outcome 3 of the four key CMO outcomes for HPHS, by supporting the Staff Engagement Sessions following on from the Your Health Matters – Your Opinion Counts, staff health and wellbeing survey, all of which work towards supporting NHSL staff.
“We have developed a new HPHS team video on shared decision making, which will be launched during quality week that staff can look out for too!”
If you would like to arrange a staff engagement session or want to know more about HPHS, please contact the team as they’d love to hear from you. Contact: Jacqueline Martin on jacqueline.martin@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
