Lanarkshire community food & health partnership

Transcript:Lanarkshire community food & health partnership:
Lanarkshire community food & health partnership Manager: Gordon Thomson project coordinator: Claire Mooney Overview Background of LCFHP Diabetes overview LCFHP course results A&Qs Group workshops – three questions LCFHP Background LCFHP is a Company Limited by Guarantee and a Registered Charity in Scotland Founded as North Lanarkshire Food Federation 1990 Run by a network of community groups. The organisation is based in Bargeddie, North Lanarkshire LCFHP Scale 13 Full Time members of staff and 12 part time Office (300m sq ft) Warehouse (1000sq ft) 5 Delivery vans Turnover 2017/18 circa £850,000 (of which S.E. + trading approx £350,000) In 2017/18 LCFHP delivered 894 Nutritional workshops to over 14400 participants LCFHP Programmes 1. Health and Social Care Integration: North Lanarkshire’s “Thematic Lead for Food” in Third Sector H&SC Pathway 2. High Five for Fruit: Nursery Children eat 40% more Fruit and Veg than national average. Free fruit to 137 nurseries and “Big Chef Little Chef” sessions. 3. Healthy Mummy Happy Baby: Nutritional and lifestyle support for perinatal and post partum mothers 4. Club365: “Holiday Hunger” provision during school holidays. Over 10000 meals provided so far in 2018. 5. Make Move Munch Clubs: Family based programme to reduce health inequalities in areas of deprivation, families eat better and become more active whilst reducing food budget. 6. Community retailing: Fruit barras, support to over 200 healthy eating projects LCFHP Philosophy “Provide and Promote” Healthy Cooking & Nutrition Classes LCFHP employ 6 nutritionists to deliver a range of nutrition and cooking sessions. We ran 894 sessions last year with 14400 attendees. Modules include Tailored courses for conditions such as diabetes Nutrition through the lifecycles e.g. young families to older people Cooking using local/seasonal produce and menu planning for health Understanding food labels Fat, Salt and sugar Basic Nutrition Supports other community based cooking initiatives via the “Training the Trainer” programme in North Lanarkshire Accredited REHIS provider Health and Social Care Integration project What is diabetes? Diabetes mellitus is defined as a metabolic disorder characterised by chronic hyperglycaemia with disturbances in metabolism resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both (SIGN, 2010) Type 1 Diabetes (autoimmune disease) Type 2 Diabetes (lifestyle factors & genetics) Pre-diabetes (the stage before Type 2) The World Health Organization Diagnostic: Table 1: ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST (OGTT) lower limb amputation Current Figures in Scotland 291,981 people in Scotland have diabetes (Dec 2016) That is 7859 more than at