Qualifications

Qualifications | Examinations Programme & Rates| Examination Booking Form |  Distance Learning | Registering as an RIPH Centre | Special Arrangements | Replacement Certificates | Centre and Trainer Information

Health Information qualifications

RIPH is intending to introduce a number of qualifications in this area and has started with the Level 2 Award in Understanding Health Improvement (details below) which has been developed with the support of the UK Department of Health.

This will be followed by a Level 3 Award in Recognising and Responding Substance Misuse, a Level 1 in Health Awareness and others thereafter.

Examination Fees per candidate are detailed under “Examinations Programme and Rates” (see link above)

Level 2 Award in Understanding Health Improvement (UHI)

• Course Information
• Qualification Specification Document
• Learning Resources (reading lists and website links)
• List of centres offering the programme
• Open course information

For information on ‘Train the Tutor’ training please contact nsmith@riph.org.uk or tvarey@riph.org.uk

General information

• UHI2 Centre Newsletter – July 2008
• NICE guidance: Promoting physical activity in the workplace - May 2008
• UHI2 Centre Newsletter – April 2008
• ‘Understanding Health Improvement’ for employers – a practical guide
• Qualification pathway for health improvement – Level 1, 2 and 3
• ‘Train the Tutor’ and Open programme delivery dates 2008

Press releases

• RIPH celebrates good health with the 1000th UHI2 candidate at Reading CAB
• Workplace wellness makes commercial sense – PwC supports workplace health champion model: 2 April 2008
• RIPH Champions healthy workforces : 25 January 2008
• Healthy staff make good business says RIPH : 22 November 2007
• First workplace health trainer presented with qualification by RIPH : 22 October 2007

Press and media coverage, and related stories

• Local Government Executive magazine, June 2008
• Heath & Safety Matters, June 2008 – to come
• Personnel Today, 23 April 2008: In focus: Coaching the wellbeing champions
• Corporate Fitness & Wellness Today – Corporate fitness ascending in the UK: 3 April 2008
• BBC On-line 17 March: Ill health 'costs economy £100bn'
• Dame Carol Black’s Review – published 17 March 2008
• ‘Working for a Healthier Tomorrow’ and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)’s ‘Building the Case for Wellness’
• Nursing Standard – 12 March 2008: page 63 Career development: Health Champions
• BBC on-line Health news : Bid to tackle ‘sick-note’ culture – 20 February 2008
• FT Report – Recruitment: The benefits of investing in employee health – 14 February 2008
• Business Link East Midlands article: 10 ways to maintain a health workforce – Feb 2008
• Business backs government healthy living plan: Personnel Today – 28 January 2008
• Obesity crisis: Employers set to reward staff for healthier lifestyles: Telegraph – 24 January 2008
• Healthy Living strategy launched: BBC News – Health – 23 January 2008
• One in 3 men drink at ‘hazardous levels: Telegraph – 23 January 2008
• Workplace health trainers: article by Lynne Greenwood in Health Services Journal – 21 January 2008
  (Free access to the article is available - log in/registration required)
• Healthy Living ‘can add 14 years to your life’ – BBC Health, 8-January-2008

Fact sheets and case studies

• UHI Case study – Royal Mail
• UHI Case study – Carphone Warehouse
• UHI Case study – Derbyshire County PCT/T Allen Stockholders
• UHI Fact Sheet – general
• UHI Brochure – employers
• Healthy work place initiatives – examples

Tools, Tips and resources for UHI Registered Centres

This area is password protected. For any queries, please contact nsmith@riph.org.uk or tvarey@riph.org.uk

• Resource area
  

Useful Links

British Heart Foundation “Think Fit”
The Think Fit Programme led by the British Heart Foundation demonstrates how making effective changes around the workplace, increasing breaks, more physical activity and analysing dietary characteristics can make lasting improvements to people’s health and performance. Their website includes many useful ideas for employers.
http://www.bhf.org.uk/thinkfit/index.asp?SecID=1590&secondlevel=1593

Business in The Community
Business in the Community – Business Action on Health campaign.
http://www.bitc.org.uk/take_action/in_the_workplace/business_action_on_health/

Centre of Workplace Health
The Centre for Workplace Health works with organisations to design, deliver and evaluate healthy workplace activities and policies to promote employee health and wellbeing.
http://www.smuc.ac.uk/Community/workplace-health/Understand_Health_Improvement.htm

City and Guilds
The RIPH Level 2 Understanding Health Improvement can be used as a stepping stone for achieving the City and Guilds Level 3 Certificate for Health Trainers.
http://www.city-and-guilds.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/SID-0AC0478D-661958C2/cgonline/hs.xsl/18743.html

Investors in People
Investors in People is piloting a Health and Wellbeing at Work Project, for the next version of its standard.
http://www.investorsinpeople.co.uk/Standard/Developingthestandard/health/Pages/Home.aspx

Health Work Wellbeing
Dame Carol Black’s review Working for a Healthier Tomorrow and PwC’s business case supporting health Building the Case for Wellness www.workingforhealth.gov.uk

Health & Safety Executive (HSE) – Work-related stress
The Health and Safety Executive have put together materials, good practice, and advise to help employers and employees how to successfullly address stress at work. http://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/index.htm

Healthy Living Alliance
The Healthy Living Alliance (HLA) is the only national organisation focusing specifically on healthy living in its broadest sense and on measures to prevent ill-health. Launched in 2005, the HLA now represents a wide range of healthy living initiatives throughout England. www.healthylivingalliance.org

NHS Health Trainers initiative
General information can be found by clicking here
The Health Trainer Manual can be found by clicking here

Transport for London (TfL) - Enterprise
TfL will help small and medium sized businesses in London set up a 'workplace travel plan' - a business management tool that will save organisations and employees time and money. There are also TfL grants available for larger employers to provide bike racks and showers in the workplace.
http://www.anewwaytowork.org/enterprise/index.htm

Transport for London (TfL) - Enterprise
TfL will help small and medium sized businesses in London set up a 'workplace travel plan' - a business management

Walking the way to health - National Step-O-Meter Programme (NSP), supported by Natural England and the NHS
Over 6,500 health care professionals have been trained in the NSP including GPs, practice nurses, dieticians, health visitors and pharmacists
http://www.whi.org.uk/details.asp?key=2032|0|2EC7485896907|p|748|0&parentkey=2032|0|2EC7485896907|p|748|0