Annie emphasizes the importance of community support and health walks to promote physical activity and social connections. She also mentions a program aimed at encouraging behavior change and setting health goals during winter.
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Thank you. And what kind of support from professionals do you think is useful for the community to get through winter healthily? Yeah, I mean, in Bracknell Forest, we do have a number of ways of, not just our public health portal promote, but in general, a lot of social media that actually stated activities. And we have a lot of walks, health walks. Locally, we have health walks. So that's specifically, you know, take a group that possibly near the surgery and then they go for a walk together. I think that is, you know, a really good idea, sort of create their own walking group, linking with the practices. So that's, you know, not just good for physical health and also people know each other and create their own community and social connectiveness as well. Lovely and do people set themselves any goals for their health during the winter? I think yeah, like you said that sometimes the winter time, the sunlight lack of it, that sort of my shift to less sort of time for goal setting, more sort of, you know, probably just sitting around doing not a lot. So, yeah, so I think need to be reminded of locally, we do have a programme called making every contact count. so we, you know, take it to the community so they can, you know, look at behaviour change, very simple brief intervention they can work with for them, work with their family and friends, so that's something that we offer.
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