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 as a Social Movement for Health?
Whilst there is no single definition of a Social Movement, it is generally perceived as a large collective action of individuals or organisations focusing on a specific political or social issue. From a Health perspective, Simon Stevens, the Chief Executive of NHS England, stated that scaled social movements are “mission critical to the future of the NHS.”
The development of a culture of health requires an increased focus on prevention, after all 'if the nation fails to get serious about prevention then recent progress in healthy life expectancies will stall, health inequalities will widen, and our ability to fund beneficial new treatments will be crowded-out by the need to spend billions of pounds on wholly avoidable illness.” NHS 5 Year Forward View.Â
We have developed 'MECC Link' as tool enable you to make that difference and #meccithappen.
After all, we don't create the social movement, you do!
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