Making Every Contact Count
Making Every Contact Count
Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is an approach to behaviour change that supports the opportunistic delivery of consistent and concise healthy lifestyle information and enables individuals to engage in conversations about their health at scale across organisations and populations.
MECC and the 10 Year NHS Plan
The 10‑Year NHS Plan positions neighbourhood health centres and integrated care teams as the new foundation of NHS delivery, emphasising prevention, personalised care, and local accessibility. MECC offers the tools and training that bring those preventive interactions to life, ensuring everyday contacts across all staff become proactive steps toward healthier communities.
Together, they form a complementary strategy: neighbourhood infrastructure plus behavioural prompting via MECC = a more connected, community-first, prevention-oriented NHS.
We have developed 'MECC Link' as tool enable you to make that difference and #meccithappen.
Making Every Contact Count (MECC): Implementation and Evaluation
These documents support the local implementation and evaluation of MECC activity and the development of training resources.
This includes:
- Making Every Contact Count (MECC): Consensus statement
- Making Every Contact Count (MECC): Evaluation framework
- Making Every Contact Count (MECC): Implementation guide
- Making Every Contact Count (MECC): Quality marker checklist for training resources