Habits for Health Programme

 

Take part in our ‘Habits for Health’ programme

We'd like to invite you to take part in our Habits for Health programme to help you become your ‘best’ self.  

There is strong evidence that shows many of our long-term health problems can be really helped by the way we live our lives. We also know that many chronic health problems are not well managed by medicines alone and often the medicine just treats symptoms and doesn't get to the cause of the problem. That’s where our lifestyle programme comes in! 

What is the Habits for Health programme?

Our interactive Habits for Health programme is aimed at patients with long-term health conditions and will help you to become a better manager of your own health and wellbeing. The programme is free for our patients to attend.  

The programme will take place over six weeks, with one session each week 

The first session is a workshop on identifying your personal needs and goals - helping you identify things in your life you can improve that you are happy you can stick with.  

We will then support you in forming new healthier habits and behaviours on a small scale which have been shown to lead to big changes in your health and wellbeing. 

Other sessions cover the topics of:  

  • Getting better sleep
  • Moving more
  • Taking care of your emotional wellbeing,
  • Eating healthily
  • Connecting with others

Throughout the program, we focus on how emotional and physical health are connected and why it's important to take care of all aspects of both to stay healthy. 

Throughout the programme we show you how creating happier, healthier lives can be easy, and surprisingly fun! 

These sessions are run by health coaches from our Health Connections team and by Dr Rob Taylor. Sessions include time for discussion in the group about how to put new habits in place. 

We hope you can join our Habits for Health programme

We really hope you can take part in this programme, which we are sure you will find useful in making sustainable lifestyle changes to become healthier and happier. 

To take part, patients need to have at least one long term physical or mental health condition. If you are unsure if this applies to you, please contact us via the phone number below or by completing our online form. 

If you would like to find out more before signing up Dr Rob Taylor has put together a short video to explain the programme, which you can watch here

What do you need to do take part? 

To take part in Habits for Health please call the Health Connections team on 01373 468368 who will register your place. Or you can complete our online form and we will get back to you with details of our next dates for the programme.

Alternatively drop-in sessions are available in the Frome Medical Practice Education suite Tuesdays 10:30am to 12:00pm - more information available here [link to drop-in page] 

We look forward to working with you on the course and helping you to feel healthier and feel happier. 

Dr Rob Taylor, GP and Jo Fordham, Health Coach