Health and lifestyle advisors in support of primary care: An evaluation of an innovative pilot service in a region of high health inequality.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

A health and lifestyle advisor service embedded within primary care was piloted in Kingston-upon-Hull from January 2021. We aimed to evaluate the first two years of service delivery by identifying patient demographics referred to the service, reason for referral, determine uptake and retention rates, and monitor individual lifestyle-related risk factor changes following discharge.

Methods

Anonymised data were extracted from the SystmOne database for all patients referred to the service between January 2021 and January 2023.

Results

In the initial two years of the service, 705 unique patients were referred at a mean rate of ∼29 per month. Each unique patient received a median (robust median absolute deviation; [MAD]) of 3 (Steel N, et al 2018) planned cons

SUBMITTER: Ingle L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10997055 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature