NHS Kent and Medway 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 Kent and Medway 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 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 monthly community of practice. Specific dates and times are listed in the application form.
The virtual (Microsoft Teams) training is currently available as a joint initiative between Kent & Medway ICB and Hampshire & Isle of Wight ICB
Dates:
- Tuesday 28th April 2026, 13:30 – 16:00
- Friday 5th June 2026, 09:30 – 12:00
- Tuesday 22nd September 2026, 09:30 – 12:00
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- Tuesday 6th October 2026, 13:30 – 16:00
- Thursday 26th November 2026, 13:30 – 16:00
- Wednesday 13th January 2027, 09:30 – 12:00
