Health Improvement Publications

Bridging the Gap pre-registration inequalities education development report
Bridging the Gap is an online inequalities learning resource developed by NHS Education for Scotland. This report gives the background to the resource.

Health Improvement Educators Event
This report is a summary of a day held in 2009 by NES to explore possibilities of a Grampian network of work-based educators to support the health improvement agenda.

Alcohol Brief Interventions Competency Framework
This ABI framework is an initial starting point in clarifying the intended practice and required knowledge, skills and approaches of the practitioners and will be of relevance to anyone involved in workforce development around ABIs. It also provides links to KSF dimensions and relevant National Occupational Standards. As the ABI theory is based on key Health Behaviour Change principles, this document also potentially provides a useful tool for other areas, such as the Child Healthy Weight initiative.

Bridging the Gap update of a pre-registration inequalities e-learning resource
Bridging the Gap is an online inequalities learning resource developed by NHS Education for Scotland. A brief scoping of how the resource had been used to date was carried out in 2010. This report summarises the findings from the consultation and offers recommendations.