REACH - Rethinking Eating and Activity for Children's Health

The aims of the REACH programme were to: - Provide a quality whole-family healthy lifestyle programme that is accessible and equitable to support children aged 4-7 and 8-11years who are above the healthy weight range in maintaining or achieving a healthy weight; - Target areas of poor health and high prevalence of childhood obesity; Contribute towards the prevention and reduction of obesity prevalence in South Gloucestershire; - Be a resource for other health professionals and services in South Gloucestershire. As this was a pilot of a child weight management programme being developed from scratch the objectives of REACH were to: Provide a high quality service which meets the needs of the local health community; - Improve childrens diet and nutritional intake and promote a healthy weight; Encourage exercise and physical activity participation; - Develop a range of skills with participants in order to increase their confidence and self esteem; - Be participant centred but also use a whole family approach to deliver healthy lifestyle messages; - Develop appropriate referral protocols, resources and course plans; - Advertise and promote the programme locally liaising with communications and the Public Health Team in NHS South Gloucestershire, GPs and staff working in the community such as School Health Nurses (SHNs); - Successfully recruit families on to the programme; Enable eligible new participants referred to the service to take part; - Encourage participants to complete the programme; - Deliver a service that helps to address health inequalities; - Monitor participants weight and lifestyle changes as part of a follow up programme; - Provide continuous professional development of service staff; - Ensure individuals and families are signposted and supported to access other services such as after school clubs, local sports clubs and leisure centres; - Provide equitable access to the service and ensure equitable outcomes are achieved by the service; Ensure continuous quality improvement;

Y W8?

The aims of this intervention are to: Coach parents in the skills to change their childrens unhealthy behavioural patterns to healthy ones that promote weight maintenance or modest weight loss Increase parents and childrens knowledge of nutrition and a healthy balanced diet Help parents modify the family environment to develop healthy lifestyle patterns through practical advice and support Give children the opportunity to exercise and increase their confidence to take part in physical activity

MoreLife Family Club Programme 5 - 10/ 11 - 16

This intervention aims to promote: Increased fitness Participation in extra curricula activities at school Knowledge on how to make healthy food choices It aims to provide tools, knowledge and strategies to enable families to enjoy a healthier lifestyle and to target improvements to families confidence, self-efficacy and self esteem

All Together Active (A2A)

All Together Active (A2A) is an innovative 12 month programme specifically developed to concentrate on overweight and obese young people (5 13 years) with opportunity to continue with physical activity after graduating from the programme. It is a structured targeted intervention for overweight children and their families, with concentrated focus on behaviour modification, healthy eating and physical activity to coincide with Change For Life and their initiatives. It offers an opportunity for families to be supported and motivated to lead a healthier lifestyle through a series of group activity and nutrition sessions that are designed to be progressive and empowering, thus giving families the knowledge and tools to sustain healthy behaviour modifications in the long term. This is all done in a fun and encouraging way designed for the child to achieve their healthy goals.

Your Choice : Weight Management in Primary Care

The aims of this intervention are 1) To be a targeted intervention: BMI >30 or > 28 for patients with comorbidities provided with support to lose weight. 2) To help patients achieve weight loss (with an initial 5% goal over the 12 week intervention period) 3) To establish primary care weight management services in thecounty 4) To train the primary care workforce in weight managementintervention 5)To help patients make sustainable lifestyle changes in terms ofhealthy eating and physical activity 6)To ensure an appropriate exit strategy was in place

Children and Family Weight Management

The Children and Family Weight Management Team aims to help overweight children and their families to achieve and maintain a healthy weight. Aimed primarily at children, the service offers a programme of advice and support to families who are committed to making healthy lifestyle changes. Adult family members who seek personal weight management support may be signposted to appropriate local services.

ProHealthClinical Primary Care Weight Management in Hertfordshire

The aim of this intervention is to: i) help primary care patients with a BMI of 30 or above or 28 with co-morbidities achieve a weight loss of 5 per cent or more using a computerised lifestyle protocol within a 12 week period ii) establish primary care weight management services in the county and train primary care workforce in weight management intervention iii)help patients make sustainable lifestyle changes in terms of healthy eating and physical activity

Families in it Together

The aims of this intervention are: To increase knowledge and attitudes of a healthier lifestyle for families, To increase the amount of time children and parents spend doing activity together, To improve enjoyment of physical activity, To increase parents understanding of a healthier diet

Health Trainers weight management service

The aim of the intervention is to offer tailored advice, motivation, and practical support to individuals who want to adopt a healthier lifestyle. The objectives are to support clients in setting goals and planning behaviour change

Life 4 Life

The aim of the intervention is to guide participants into making simple, healthy lifestyle changes. The objectives are to enable participants to identify personal health goals by relecting on their own lifestyle.

Evaluation of the Birmingham My Choice Adult Weight Management Programme

The aims of this intervention are: To reduce adult obesity levels To improve access to weight management services in primary care. To improve access to weight management services for areas with high BME populations or poor access to commercial weight loss providers To improve diet and nutrition, promote healthy weight and increase levels of physical activity in overweight or obese patients. To support patients to make lifestyle changes to enable them to lose weight

Fit for School

The aim of this intervention is to support children to achieve and maintain a health weight range by supporting them to make positive healthy lifestyle choices.

Weigh2go: A Peripatetic Level 1 Weight Management Service

The aim of this intervention is to increase the accessibility of appropriate evidence based support to people who are clinically obese to enable them to make lifestyle changes that will lead to weight loss. Objectives1. Identify patients whose lifestyle put them at risk of obesity and poor health outcomes and provide them with advice and support along with signposting to specific services and activities. 2. Identify patients who are overweight or obese and offer them a structured multi-component programme of support for them to loose weight. 3. Through the use of software collect data to monitor outcomes at individual and practice levels.

Weight Reduction Service

The aim of this intervention is to offer support to overweight and obese patients, particularly those with co-morbidities to make changes to lifestyle in food habits and physical activity.

Fit4it

The aims and objectives of this intervention are - To reduce or maintain participant's BMI - Improve participant's self-confidence - Improve participation in physical activities - Provide information about health and nutrition - Provide participant's with the opportunity to make new friends - Provide participant's with the opportunity to take part in a variety of different sporting activities - To provide a fun and interactive health lifestyle programm