What is MECC Link?

What is MECC Link?

MECC Link is a simple but flexible online tool that has been carefully designed to support an approach to positive behaviour change called 'Making Every Contact Count' (MECC). MECC Link helps you to raise awareness, motivate and signpost people to help them to improve their health and wellbeing. MECC Link gives you access a full range of signposting information for health improvement, including self-care and national and local support services...and it does this all in one place by providing:

  • Easily accessible information on key healthy lifestyle topics
  • Suggested open questions using the Ask, Assist, Act model
  • Information on a range of primary Self-care tools and resources
  • Signposting to recommended national and local support services.

How does MECC Link work?

MECC Link a mobile/tablet enabled website designed in recognition that MECC conversations are often opportunistic. Once you have selected 'Your Region' you can then access a full list of positive actions that people can take to improve their health and wellbeing.

You can use the ASK, ASSIST and ACT section (Very Brief Intervention) to help support your conversations

Or at the touch of button you can go direct to range of primary signposting information on self-care, national and local support services.

MECC Link as an App

MECC Link is now available as a Progressive Web App (PWA) for your Android and Apple mobile devices. By adding MECC link to the home page of your mobile phone, you can now access all the of content offline as well as online, which is great for those times you cant get a good phone signal!

The good news is that you don't need to install MECC Link from Google play or the App Store.  A progressive web app is installed when you add the shortcut to your home screen. 

For Apple users

To put a MECC Link shortcut on your Home screen, do the following:

1) Open up www.mecclink.co.uk on Safari

2) Tap the Share button in Safari

3) Tap the icon labelled Add to Home Screen.

4) Tap Add in the upper-right corner.

You can now launch the PWA from your Home screen by tapping its icon.

For Android users

To put a MECC Link shortcut on your Home screen, do the following:

1) Open up www.mecclink.co.uk on your internet browser

2) If this is the first time you have visited MECC Link from your mobile or tablet you will be prompted with and option to : 'Add MECC Link to your home screen'

3) If you select Yes a shortcut with be added to your home screen

You can now launch the PWA from your Home screen by tapping its icon.

 

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