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Healthy Lifestyle

Resources that can be used by health and care professionals to facilitate discussions about healthy lifestyle. 

Healthy Lifestyle

  • A Healthier Me

    Organisation: Mencap
    Type: Resource pack
    Date published: August 2021
    Description: A resource pack to help people with a learning disability understand how food and drink choices can affect their health and how to make small changes.

  • Cookery and Recipes

    Organisation: Various
    Type: Resources
    Date published: Various
    Description: A selection of cookery resources for people with a learning disability

  • Health matters: preventing Type 2 Diabetes

    Organisation: Public Health England
    Type: Guidance (general population)
    Date published: May 2018
    Description: This professional resource outlines how to optimise the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme (NHS DPP) in order to identify those already found to be at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and offer support that will help them reduce their risk of developing the disease.

  • Increasing the uptake of Annual Health Checks for people with a learning disability: videos for professionals

    Organisation: NHS England
    Type: Films
    Date published: Oct 2021
    Description: Various films for healthcare professionals working in primary care to increase knowledge of annual health checks including Introduction to Annual Health Checks for Primary Care

  • Obesity, weight management and people with learning disabilities: Guidance

    Organisation: Public Health England
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: Revised Sept 2020
    Description: This guidance is for public health staff commissioning or running weight management services and other mainstream health professionals working to support people to lose weight.

  • Obstructive sleep apnoea/ hypopnoea syndrome and obesity hypoventilation syndrome in over 16s

    Organisation: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
    Type: Guidance (General) for healthcare professionals including dentists, commissioniners and providers, families/carers.
    Date published: August 2021
    Description: The guideline covers the diagnosis and management of obstructive sleep apnoea/ hypopnoea syndrome (OSAHS), obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with OSAHS (COPD–OSAHS overlap syndrome) in people over 16.

  • Public Health England Strategy 2020-2025

    Organisation: Public Health England
    Type: Strategy
    Date published: From 2020-2025
    Description: This strategy set's out Public Health England's strategy for the next 5 years, including achieving healthier diets and healthier weight which is one of the top 10 priorities in the strategy

  • Supporting someone with a learning disability to stay hydrated

    Organisation: MacIntyre Charity
    Type: Website
    Date published: June 2021
    Description: Guidance on helping someone with a learning disability to stay hydrated.

  • The Eat Well Guide

    Organisation: NHS
    Type: Guides for healthy eating
    Date published:
    Description: Information and guidance about eating a healthy, balanced diet.

  • Weight management for people with learning disabilities

    Organisation: The Association of UK Dieticians
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: Regularly Updated
    Description: Resources and policies on reducing health inequalities and supporting food choices, including the policy paper ' Tackling Obesity'.

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