Change4Life one year on

A new report on the progress made by the Change4Life campaign during its first year has just been published by the Department of Health. It contains information on what families have been doing during year one to embrace Change4Life and how local supporters have played a crucial role in this.03-03-2010

In year one over 420,000 families signed up to Change4Life. A million mums are already claiming to have made changes to their children’s diet or activity levels as a result of Change4Life. In a recent audit, 44% of primary schools, hospitals, GP surgeries, town and village halls, children’s centres, pharmacies, nurseries, libraries and leisure centres displayed Change4Life materials. Over 25,000 local supporters used Change4Life materials to help them start conversations with over a million people about their lifestyles. NHS staff ordered over 6 million items of Change4Life material to distribute to the public. Primary schools generated over 50,000 sign-ups to Change4Life. Local authorities and primary care trusts joined up their own activities and created new ones, such as street parties and roadshows.  With thanks to nhs.uk.  To read the full report go to:

http://www.nhs.uk/change4life/Documents/pdf/C4L_Newsletter_Feb10_acc.pdf