Total Place approach on St Helena

The NSMC has been very fortunate over recent years to island hop and work on various different islands around the world, including the British Virgin Islands, Jamaica, and now St Helena. With the drive for place-based approaches to health, local authorities and Clinical Commissioning Groups could learn a lot from the approach taken by these islands, particularly St Helena and their natural total place approaches.

Why is behaviour change so difficult?

To coincide with the launch of our new website, I was asked to write a blog around the topic of why behaviour change is so difficult. My response was “I would love to”, and ideas immediately started running through my head about what I could write …until I got another email.