This report describes the development of the first national undergraduate interprofessional standardised curriculum in chronic disease prevention for healthcare professionals in the Republic of Ireland. This project brought together for the first time all higher education institutions nationwide in a novel collaboration with the national health service i.e. the Health Service Executive (HSE), to develop a standardised national curriculum for undergraduate health care professions. The curriculum sits within the framework of Making Every Contact Count (Health Service Executive, 2016), the goal of which is to re-orientate health services to embed the ethos of prevention through lifestyle behaviour change as part of the routine care of health professionals. The core focus of Making Every Contact Count is chronic disease prevention, targeting four main lifestyle risk factors for chronic disease; tobacco use, alcohol consumption, physical inactivity and unhealthy eating.Making Every Contact Count is a key component of Healthy Ireland, the Irish national framework for health and wellbeing (Department of Health, 2013). The aim of the curriculum is to prepare newly qualified health professionals with the skills needed to support patients to achieve lifestyle behaviour change delivered as part of routine clinical care.
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