Everyone Health

Everyone Health is the Integrated Lifestyle Service commissioned by Southend Borough Council. Everyone Health offers a behaviour change approach to improving the health of local communities. We do this by providing dynamic and bespoke healthy lifestyle services to partners across the sector and deliver effective prevention and treatment services. Our service in Southend is free for people aged 16 and above who live or work in Southend or are registered with a Southend GP practice. This includes support to lose weight, eat more healthily and get active.

 

How we work:

We offer Free lifestyle services such as:

Adult Weight Management

Health Trainer

Falls Prevention

Physical Activity

NHS Health Checks

Workplace Wellbeing

Professional referrals

Professional Referral - Everyone Health Southend-on-Sea

Tel: 0333 005 0095 or email eh.southend@nhs.net

Self - referrals

Self-Referral - Everyone Health Southend-on-Sea

Tel: 0333 005 0095 or email eh.southend@nhs.net

Our Approach

Our mission is to create a sustained positive impact on the health and wellbeing of local communities, enabling individuals to drive and sustain change. At Everyone Health we:

  • Empower people to adopt healthier behaviours
  • Develop community capacity addressing the wider determinants of health
  • Offer cost effective approaches
  • Provide local leadership and technical expertise
  • Offer creative solutions to engage communities, families and individuals in managing their health and wellbeing

Link to our website: https://southend.everyonehealth.co.uk/about/

  1. Healthy Diet and Healthy Weight Section

In the EH Weight Management section – can we add in: We offer lots of options to understand food choices and to help you find tasty, small changes to help you lose weight for good. We run groups and one to one sessions with our trained and friendly registered nutritionists. They are also fun and sociable, giving you the chance meet people who, just like you, want to get fit and lose weight. If this isn’t for you, we can offer some residents free access to 12 weeks of Slimming World, Weight Watchers and Trim and Train in Southend through our local partnerships. We encourage a balanced approach including both what you eat and helping you to move more, as well as helping you to track your progress – we’ll be there every step of the way, and to cheer on every pound you lose. 

Health Trainers

Have a wealth of training and expertise to guide and support you to improve your health and wellbeing. You will work in partnership with your health trainer and develop a plan that is tailored to your individual goals. They can support you with the behaviour change tools to make changes to your diet and weight.

Physical Activity

Everyone Health offers Free Health Walks in local parks and on the Pier to those who are taking part in less than 30 minutes of activity per week. We also offer specific exercise classes such a Falls Management Exercise which is a 36 weeks long programme which aims at those above 65 years old who need to develop their strength and balance in able to prevent falls.

NHS Health Checks 

What is a NHS Health Check? A 20-30 minute screening check designed to spot early signs of stroke, kidney disease, heart disease, diabetes and dementia. It is for those aged 40-74 and do not have a pre-existing medical condition. The health check involves

  • Height, Weight and BMI
  • Waist measurement
  • Blood pressure
  • Cholesterol
  • Lifestyle questions