New training programme launched to help GPs support families to make lifestyle changes

The Infant & Toddler Forum (ITF) has launched an online training programme to support Making Every Contact Count (MECC) implementation. The new online educational programme, called CHAT, aims to increase practitioner confidence in engaging and supporting families to make lifestyle changes to improve their short and long-term health. CHAT offers online and face-to-face training and is unique in that it combines the €˜knowledge of healthy behaviours in early life’ with Healthy Conversation Skills (HCS). This unique, scalable and transferable intervention will help achieve current government targets to combat maternal and childhood obesity through the MECC mandate. CHAT has already delivered