About Healthy Lifestyles Isle of Wight
Introducing Healthy Lifestyles Isle of Wight – a new stop smoking and weight management service for the Isle of Wight community. From 1 January 2021, local residents have the opportunity to access a range of new and exciting programmes and services that will improve their health and wellbeing.
Service users can self refer to the service or be referred by their health professional, this can be done via our website here or by calling 01983 642369/ 0800 999 1396.
Healthy Lifestyles Isle of Wight will engage and bring together a range of local partner agencies to help reduce inequalities across the Isle of Wight. The service will enable residents to access both stop smoking and weight management interventions seamlessly.
Need to make a referral?
Please use the form on the link below to make a patient referral to one of our services.Whilst many of these fields are optional, we do request you provide your referrer details, so that any clarifications can be made to aid in the correct triaging for the service user.
Training for Health Professionals
Please see below for online training modules to help support you with providing smoking cessation advice to patients.
Very Brief Advice (VBA) on Smoking
VBA is a simple form of advice designed to be used opportunistically in less than 30 seconds in almost any consultation with a smoker. https://elearning.ncsct.co.uk/vba-launch
Very Brief Advice (VBA) on Smoking for Pregnant Women
Smoking in pregnancy poses significant health risks to the mother and to the baby. VBA is a proven intervention that has the potential to improve the health, and even save the life, of both mother and baby. https://elearning.ncsct.co.uk/vba_pregnancy-launch
Very Brief Advice (VBA) on Secondhand Smoke: promoting smoke free homes and cars
This training module has been developed by the NCSCT to teach health professionals how best to raise the issue of secondhand smoke exposure and promote smokefree homes and cars. https://elearning.ncsct.co.uk/shs_vba-launch
Please see below for our 2021 training calendar for more information on L2 and Refresher training.
Need to make a referral?
Please use the form on the link below to make a patient referral to one of our integrated services.Whilst many of these fields are optional, we do request you provide your referrer details, so that any clarifications can be made to aid in the correct triaging for the service user.
How to refer to the service
Please use the form on the link below to make a patient referral to one of our integrated services. Whilst many of these fields are optional, we do request you provide your referrer details, so that any clarifications can be made to aid in the correct triaging for the service user.
Resources
If you have any queries or would like to order service resources, please contact us by using the form available on this link or by contacting our dedicated team on 01983 642369/ 0800 999 1396.
Need to make a referral?
Please use the form on the link below to make a patient referral to one of our integrated services.Whilst many of these fields are optional, we do request you provide your referrer details, so that any clarifications can be made to aid in the correct triaging for the service user.