Health Improvement Practitioners (HIPs) work within GP practices to help identify people who are at risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, and stroke.

They support people to make positive lifestyle changes to reduce their risk of future disease. HIPs can help you to improve your diet, increase your physical activity levels, reduce your alcohol intake, improve your mental wellbeing, and to stop smoking.

Health checks

Health improvement Practitioners support GP Practices to perform:

• NHS Health Checks (people aged 40 and above)
• High Risk Cardiovascular Disease Annual Reviews (people identified as high risk of heart disease)

Lifestyle change support

HIPs also work with people over the age of 16yrs who are:

• At risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes
• Type 2 Diabetic
• At high risk of developing Heart disease
• At risk of Alcohol Harm

We offer one to one support sessions to help people create their own ‘Personal Health Plan’, focussing on what’s important to them and signposting to other health services, support groups and activities in the local community where appropriate.

*Unfortunately, we do not take self-referrals; however, please speak to a clinician if you think you fall into one of the above criteria.