NHS Hampshire & Isle of Wight ICB

Approaching vaccine uptake through ‘healthy conversations’ -  2.5 hour sessions

Let’s Talk About Vaccines (LTaV) is a training session to help build your confidence, skills and knowledge to open up discussions with service users about vaccination decisions in your local area.


This 2.5-hour online, interactive session is free to health, social care and voluntary sector staff within the NHS Hampshire & Isle of Wight ICB footprint. 


This training uses approaches from:

  • Making Every Contact Count (MECC)
  • Shared Decision Making
  • Motivational Interviewing (MI)

  • Aims of the Training:

    The training will explore the issues, myths and barriers around vaccine hesitancy, providing you with the techniques and approaches to help people make informed choices. These can be used in your everyday contact with patients as an opportunity to discuss vaccine uptake.


    We acknowledge and understand that people may have a good reason not to have a vaccine. By listening to individuals and their concerns and discussing options in a non-judgemental way, the training aims to support you to improve people's knowledge and understanding.

  • Follow-on Support:

    We understand that you don’t stop learning when the session finishes, so following the 2.5-hour session we will also be supporting those that attend with a bi-monthly community of practice (COP). The COPs will be hosted by an experienced coach trainer, who will support you with further skills to embed the training. 

The training is available for booking below, and is also followed by a bi-monthly community of practice. Specific dates and times are listed in the application form.

Click here to apply for the Hampshire & IOW LTaV training sessions

NHS Hampshire & Isle of Wight ICB

1-day Vaccine Champions Programme

Dates & Locations:

  • TBC

All dates will be located at: TBC

The UK is currently experiencing a significant decrease in vaccine coverage and an increasing risk of vaccine-preventable diseases.


Following the success of Let’s Talk About Vaccines training in Hampshire & IOW, we have launched a 1-day Vaccine Champions programme. This programme provides coaching tools and support to enable you to have meaningful conversations with staff and service users, to help people make informed decisions around vaccinations.


The Vaccine Champions programme provides you with an opportunity to support vaccination uptake to address vaccine hesitancy and provide education.


This is a fully interactive and reflective programme with opportunities to practice techniques, discuss experience and approaches with peers and colleagues and reflect on practice.

  • The cohort:

    This is available to all health, social care and voluntary sectors within Hampshire & Isle of Wight. 

  • The course offers an excellent opportunity to:

    Collaborate with other healthcare professionals.


    Develop skills to encourage conversations about vaccination. 


    Learn theory, skills and knowledge to apply to day-to-day conversation with your service users.


    Build on existing knowledge and skills that you already have.

  • Modules will include:

    Understanding how people learn and think.


    Understanding a coaching mindset.


    Structuring conversations using a coaching approach.


    Practicing key communication skills.


    Using Making Every Contact Count (MECC). 


    A range of tools to explore vaccine hesitancy.

  • Location of workshops:

    All the training on this programme will be facilitated face to face.

    The location and timings of the workshop will be found on the application form below, and the timings will be from 09:30 – 16:30. 

Testimonials from attendees of the LTaV Champions Programme

"What has the most impact on me?"

"The opportunity to network, enhance my skills in coaching, and improve my day-to-day communication."

"The different models I can use to guide me in coaching, and the realisation that it is never too late to learn to help in the bigger agenda about vaccination uptake."

"Just planting a seed is already a win, it’s not my job to come up with the answer."

"I have been reassured by the tools I can use to promote positive conversations, and that they may have different end goals."

"How could others benefit from attending this programme?"

"The Change Coach Programme offers an opportunity for all health workers to improve their skills and increase uptake of vaccination."

"Others should attend this course to understand coaching and how to use this when supporting clients to make informed decisions and provide an increase in positive outcomes."

"This course improves confidence around vaccine hesitancy. It makes you evaluate your coaching style and adjust the way you have conversations with patients."

"Others should attend this course so we can have positive conversations with patients/carers about immunisation and its benefits, and to promote confidence in the staff members having these  sometimes challenging conversations."

Feedback highlights -

Post training, on a scale of 1-10, how important do you think having a conversation about vaccination is for you in your role? (10 being most important)

  • An average increase of 29% compared with prior to completing the training

 

Post training, on a scale of 1-10, how confident do you feel about having a conversation about vaccination in your role? (10 being most confident)

  • An average increase of 31% compared with prior to completing the training