Health Promotion

In partnership with Scotland 's largest Health Board we have developed a number of Health Promotion solutions. These include software for Smoking Cessation, Men's Health, Exercise Referral, and other Community Health initiatives.

Each Health Promotion initiative is unique, but the common requirement is to collect and analyse data. Software solutions detailed here illustrate both interactive software and batch processing.

Pharmacy

This database supports the activities of a project, run in conjunction with (about) 220 Pharmacies spread throughout the Greater Glasgow area.

Patients attend the Pharmacy once a week for 12 weeks, and are given free NRT (Nicotine Replacement Therapy). They are asked for some minimum data (Years they have smoked etc), and their CO reading is taken where appropriate.

The system has three main purposes:

• To process the forms returned by the Pharmacies, and handle reimbursement of NRT costs and professional Fees.
• To report on, and analyse the data
• To co-ordinate the "Follow Up" process

NoSmoke

The "Smoking Concerns" team organises and runs support groups for those attempting to stop smoking. Each group meets weekly for 7 weeks, with weeks 1 & 2 being allocated to encouragement and planning for "Quit Week" which is generally at Week 3.

The NOSMOKE system is based on the recording of each person's attendance and "readings" at each week of the group, and also the processing of the "Questionnaires" completed by participants in the various groups, and in one-to-one meetings with Counsellors.

GP Exercise Referral

The growth of "exercise on referral"- allows General Practitioners and Practice nurses, as well as hospitals to refer suitable patients to programmes of exercise on the NHS. The patients are those whose health could benefit from a more active lifestyle. The schemes apply particularly to patients most at risk of heart attack and stroke, but can also tackle problems such as obesity, diabetes, mental ill-health, chronic low back pain and rehabilitation after falls and accidents.

The purpose of this software is to

• Record data for people seen By Exercise Referral Counsellors
• Assist with the Referrals Process
• Provide statistical analysis

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