Making Every Contact Count (MECC) Survey

'Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is an approach using the many day-to-day interactions that organisations and individuals have with patients, service users and the public to support them in making positive changes. 

 

This may involve initiating a very brief intervention/conversation (that takes place in less than two minutes) with a person perhaps as part of a routine appointment or consultation; and where appropriate, offering advice, providing encouragement and support for change or signposting and referring them to local services and sources of further information.

 

Wirral Partners are working together to make better use of the MECC approach, understanding what matters most to people and then support them to access the right services and information when they need it.  

 

To do this well, staff and services need the right skills, resources and confidence to open up these conversations and we want your feedback to help us get this right.

 

We are inviting colleagues to answer just a few questions to inform how we can make MECC work for you and the individuals you care for.

 

1. Which organisation do you work/volunteer for? *

 

2. Which service do you work in? *

 

3. Do you currently utilise MECC as part of your current contacts/appointments? *

 

4. If yes, what do you do?

 

5. How would you rate your level of confidence in the MECC approach? *

 

6. Please provide some details regarding your confidence rating. *

 

7. Evidence tells us that the biggest challenges for people across Wirral currently include: finances, isolation/loneliness, health and wellbeing, housing/home and safety. Are there any other areas you feel are a priority and why do you think that? *

 

8. What resources, tools or support do you feel you need to help you open up conversations with people about these issues? *

 

9. Do you currently access Wirral InfoBank? www.wirralinfobank.co.uk *

 

10. Which websites or resources do you currently use to help you signpost people for support? *

 

11. What do you see as being the barriers to MECC? *

 

12. What ideas do have to help overcome those barriers?  *