Improving Healthy Weight in Moray

In Moray, we’re working together to make it easier for everyone to live a healthy life. Our Whole Systems Approach to improving Healthy Weight brings people, communities, and organisations together to tackle the bigger picture not just individual choices, but the environment and circumstances that shape them.

The Moray Whole Systems Approach to Improving Healthy Weight is a key priority within:

• Scotland’s Population Health Framework.
• Health and Social Care Moray’s Partners in Care and Getting it Right for Everyone (GIRFE) approach.
• Moray Local Outcome Improvement Plan, which focuses on improving health and wellbeing for everyone.

This approach is:

• Collaborative: Everyone has a role to play.

• Holistic: Looking beyond diet and exercise to include housing, work, education, and community support.

• Flexible and adaptive: Ready to respond to new challenges and local needs.

• Built on strong partnerships: Strengthened during the COVID-19 pandemic and continuing today.

What We’ve Achieved So Far

Through three interactive workshops, we have:

• Identified and co-created a shared understanding of the causes and drivers of unhealthy weight.
• Mapped what’s already happening in Moray to support healthy weight.
• Identified gaps and opportunities for improvement.
• Identified shared priorities for action.
• Connected partners across health and local authority, environmental health, children services, transport, education, community, and third sector organisations
• Produced a draft Vision Statement
• Produced a map that shows the connection between the physical environment and unhealthy weight - Moray-asset map – Google My Maps

For more details on the work see the outputs from the earlier workshops below:

First Workshop: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/tfEqS1qQ6mBtFJcu?ref=Link

Second Workshop- https://sway.cloud.microsoft/fUgW0iuezpyd3FIf?ref=Link