Training Resources & Material
This page will contain information and resources to assist with training.
Currently we have the Skilled For Health resources available for you to browse.
Skilled For Health
Reaching People in agreement with NHS England, Public Health England and the Department for Education[BJ1] have been asked to host the national Skilled for Health resources temporarily whilst a long-term solution is discussed and agreed. These evidence-based resources were co-produced and extensively tested by the Department of Health, the Department for Education and the learning charity ContinYou, the predecessor body, of the Community Health and Learning Foundation as part of a national partnership. An external evaluation of the resources showed they improved people’s skills, knowledge and confidence about their health as well as their language, literacy and numeracy.
More recently they have been updated and tested again by CHLF via funding from NHS England and the Department for Education.
What is Skilled for Health:
For many years it has been recognised that people with lower levels of health literacy including less well-developed language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) skills experience poorer health outcomes. This means that they may be less able to make decisions about treatment and care options, manage their health and wellbeing on a day to day basis and to access and use services. This has an impact on their longer-term health outcomes. Skilled for Health is a set of evidence based, tested resources. Embedding health topics into learning resources improves health literacy (skills knowledge and confidence) as well as general language, literacy and numeracy.
Take a look and see how you could use these free resources with the people, groups and communities you work with and support. If you are interested in training staff to use the resources please contact us here at Reaching People.
Skilled for Health Resources
Select a theme below to view the resources
- What is Skilled for Health; Making the Case
- Theme 1 - Healthy food and Drink
- Theme 2 - Physical activity
- Theme 3 - Smoking
- Theme 4 - Alcohol
- Theme 5 - Mental wellbeing
- Theme 6 - Oral health
- Theme 7 - Staying safe
- Theme 8 - What to do in an emergency
- Theme 9 - NHS support
- Theme 10 - GPs and local primary care services
- Theme 11 - Making decisions about your health
- Theme 12 - Looking after yourself
- Audio Resources
This section contains audio resources for use with the Skilled for Health Themes. The documents in the series will contain reference numbers in the Resources section if there are accompanying audio resources, which you can listen to by clicking on the appropriate link below, locating the numbered player, and clicking Play.
Audio Resources
Skilled for Health Theme 1 – Healthy food and Drink
Skilled for Health Theme 2 – Physical activity
Skilled for Health Theme 3 – Smoking
Skilled for Health Theme 5 – Mental wellbeing
Skilled for Health Theme 6 – Oral health
Skilled for Health Theme 7 – Staying safe
Skilled for Health Theme 8 – What to do in an emergency
Skilled for Health Theme 9 – NHS support
Skilled for Health Theme 10 – GPs and local primary care services
Skilled for Health Theme 11 – Making decisions about your health
Skilled for Health Theme 12 – Looking after yourself
This section contains audio resources for use with the Skilled for Health Themes. The documents in the series will contain reference numbers in the Resources section if there are accompanying audio resources, which you can listen to by clicking on the appropriate link below, locating the numbered player, and clicking Play.