Making MECC work

We were delighted to contribute to the #CHODNCCHealthyIreland conference today in the Building Healthy Public Policies and Practice session with @amcdoyle @ecohealthire Paul Hickey and @amcdoyle @hrbireland @Irishheart_ie @HsehealthW @AgathaLawless @MollyByrneIre

A big thank you to all who supported us on our Making MECC Work project @HsehealthW @MollyByrneIre @AgathaLawless @oonaghmeade @hbcrg @hrbireland @dr_anda_psy

Useful contact details if you are interest in knowing more about the MECC programme and our project! @HsehealthW @MollyByrneIre @oonaghmeade @AgathaLawless @hbcrg

@AgathaLawless MECC discusses next steps for the MECC programme in 2023 and how the recommendations from our research will feed into the programme activities. @MollyByrneIre @HsehealthW @oonaghmeade @dr_anda_psy @hbcrg @hrbireland

@dr_anda_psy presents her work on developing motivational communication skills for the MOTIVATOR programme. Great to have this international perspective at our MECC dissemination event! @kimlouiselavoie @MollyByrneIre @hbcrg @oonaghmeade @HsehealthW @AgathaLawless

@MollyByrneIre describes our consensus process to develop recommendations to improve MECC delivery. You can view the policy brief with our recommendations here: makingmeccwork.com/study-out… @AgathaLawless @oonaghmeade @dr_anda_psy @HsehealthW

@oonaghmeade takes us through some of the qualitative findings at our dissemination event - highlighting the critical role of environmental context and resources in MECC brief intervention delivery. @MollyByrneIre @AgathaLawless @HsehealthW @dr_anda_psy

@MollyByrneIre presents an overview of the background to the Making MECC Work project at our dissemination event today @AgathaLawless @HsehealthW @oonaghmeade @dr_anda_psy

Maria O'Brien describes the strategic and policy drivers for the MECC programme at our end of project dissemination event today! @HsehealthW @MollyByrneIre @AgathaLawless @oonaghmeade @dr_anda_psy @hbcrg @hrbireland

Many thanks to our Making MECC Work Steering Committee, 4th & final meeting yesterday: great ideas for further dissemination, translation, impact, collaborations. Watch this space.... @HsehealthW @hrbireland @oonaghmeade @pjm1978 @kimlouiselavoie @jonijojo @hayesc94 @dr_anda_psy

Join us for a special end-of-project event!📢 Don't miss out on the opportunity to meet the research team, learn more about the project, and ask all your questions! Free registration here: nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/meeting…

Thanks again to everyone for a great few days focusing on strategy options to enhance MECC implementation!

Grateful to our HSE, PPI and academic stakeholders for joining us at @nuigalway over the last two days and supporting us to develop recommendations to enhance MECC delivery in Ireland! A busy, productive and enjoyable few days! @HsehealthW @AgathaLawless @mollybyrne @hbcrg

Our knowledge user Principal Investigator Dr Maria O'Brien presents the Making MECC Work project at #ici22 today! @HsehealthW @AgathaLawless @MollyByrneIre @oonaghmeade @hbcrg @JenMcSharry

Great to have our HSE Principal Investigator Dr Maria O'Brien sharing our protocol for our Making MECC Work study at the #IFICireland conference last week. We look forward to more conferences over the summer as we get ready to share our study findings!

Thank you all the HSE staff (23 so far!) who have taken part in interviews about what makes it easy/difficult to deliver MECC. Looking forward to interviewing more Health Promotion & Improvement staff next week about experiences of supporting MECC implementation @HsehealthW

Congratulations to our Health Psychology PPI Panel member and @hrbireland Summer Scholar @EvanOFla for presenting his protocol for a systematic review of patient experiences of receiving brief interventions today @NUIGMedicine!

Exciting to meet our Health Psychology Advisory Panel this morning as we plan our study on acceptability of receiving MECC interventions. We were brainstorming what questions we should ask people in our interviews. Lots of ideas!