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Recommendations for building healthy heart communities in Torbay
Recommendation 1
Be strategic – develop a systems approach to promoting healthy weight
- Healthy weight needs assessment
- Multi-agency healthy weight action plan to improve the environments sustaining and promoting healthy weight in Torbay
Recommendation 2
Be imaginative – use our combined workforce in different ways
- Primary and community groups working with neighbourhoods to share skills around heart health promotion, blood pressure and pulse checks
Recommendation 3
Be aware – coordinate our messaging
- Consistent, coordinated heart health messages & campaigns to increase awareness & early detection
Recommendation 4
Start young
- Recognising the link between adverse childhood experiences & future health
- Awareness around heart health in our Family Hubs
- School based physical activity & heart healthy behaviours through Torbay on the Move and active travel around schools
Recommendation 5
Go where people are
- Health checks in community venues, looking at heart health alongside wider health issues
- Targeted outreach where we know fewer people who are at greater risk of heart disease are coming forward for help
Recommendation 6
Foster peer support - healthy heart training for volunteers
- Training in health checks & heart health for volunteers across the community to increase awareness and early detection
- More people able to access peer support groups where they encourage each other to look after their heart, promote physical activity, and are able to access professional advice where needed
Continue the conversation…
We will monitor and share progress against these recommendations with our partners during the year and report formally in the 2024 annual report.