England

Seeding Sustainable Communities was a three-year project that sought to introduce environmentally friendly behaviours to new home owners, using the move to a new house as a catalyst for further behavioural changes.

Food Dudes is an evidence-based programme designed to improve children's consumption of fruit and vegetables. 

'Taxi!' was a one-year pilot project developed by the Walsall Council Creative Development Team to encourage local taxi drivers to review their lifestyle and make positive changes.

'Experience Food at Work' was a pilot initiative that aimed to improve workplace eating behaviours at the Breckland District Council offices in Norfolk. Led by London-based design and behaviour change consultancy Uscreates, the project used creative research and co-design techniques to develop innovative methods to improve eating behaviours, such as encouraging staff to eat more fruit and vegetables during the work day and take lunch away from their workstation.

As part of England's National Chlamydia Screening Programme, COAST (Chlamydia Outreach Advice Screening and Treatment) is an innovative, nurse-led scheme designed to make the detection and treatment of chlamydia a simple and straightforward process.

Time to Change is England's most ambitious programme to end discrimination faced by people who experience mental health problems. It is run by Mind and Rethink, and is funded by the Big Lottery Fund and Comic Relief. It is being evaluated by the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College, London.

The programme of 35 projects involves: local community projects; a national high-profile campaign; a mass-participation physical activity week; legal test cases; and training for student doctors and teachers.

The cleanyourhands campaign was a national initiative in England and Wales to combat preventable healthcare associated infection by improving the hand hygiene of healthcare staff.

Snack Right was a targeted intervention for the parents and carers of preschool children from deprived neighbourhoods of Cheshire and Merseyside. It aimed for children to replace at least one unhealthy snack each day with a healthy one, ideally with a fruit or vegetable.

Commissioned by ChaMPs, the public health network for Cheshire and Merseyside, and designed by the ChaMPs social marketing group, the project used a mix of fun activity days, competitions and rewards to encourage and maintain healthy snacking behaviours.

Launched in March 2009 by NHS Hull, Fit Fans is a free weight management service designed primarily for men aged 40 to 65 who want to lose weight.

'Early Presentation of Cancer Symptoms' is a community-led programme working across deprived communities in North East Lincolnshire. It uses local knowledge and communities to encourage people to present earlier with suspected symptoms of bowel, prostate and gynaecological cancers, with the aim of reducing cancer mortality rates.