Healthy Choices is an 8-week programme, funded by WACA, aimed at people at high risk of developing CVD and/or diabetes. Since April we have been running a weekly session in Skipton and Silsden.

We have:
1. Provided 2 weekly exercise and healthier eating coaching sessions - take up = 51 places
2. Helped people lose weight (average loss = 3.1kg)
3. Seen reductions in cholesterol for 5 reported cases and blood pressure for 3 reported cases (dependent on patients attending their GP and feeding back to us).

30% of patients have provided feedback confirming:
"I feel fitter, stronger, better..." in some way.

This has also had a knock on impact on confidence for many - difficult to measure we know but stories of longer, more ambitious walks, completing Couch to 5k, feeling able to venture out independently, are not uncommon.

Full details of the programme are on the Eat, Move, Be Happy website - https://eatmovebehappy.com/healthychoices/. Patients can enrol by completing the enrolment form which is on the website or for further information/help with enrolment book an appointment with the Social Prescriber at Grange Park Surgery.