Free health coaching for patients

The Get Healthy Service is an evidence-based NSW Health program that provides free phone and online health coaching to help your patients reach their health goals.

Get Healthy Service participants receive:

• Their own qualified health coach
• Up to 10 phone or video coaching calls at a time that suits them
• Access to a participant portal, online chat, webinars and tailored resources.

98% of participants report being satisfied or very satisfied with the Service (Participant survey, 2023/24)

Health coaching can help people to:

• eat healthily
• be more active
• reduce alcohol consumption.

There are also tailored programs for:

• Aboriginal people
• pregnant women
• people living with Type 2 Diabetes
• people who want to stay active during and after cancer treatment.

Participants who complete the program:

• Did 44 minutes more of physical activity per week
• Ate 30% more vegetables and 11% more fruit
• Reduced sugary drinks by 44%
• Reduced takeaway meals by 31%
• Achieved 1.45kg weight loss, reduced their waist circumference by 2.74cm and BMI by 0.51 kg/m2

Clinicians can access the referral form via their practice software, or online.

There is also a Primary Care Impact topic if practices would like to embed routine referral to Get Healthy Service into general practice.

• Community nutrition programs
• Username: manchealth, password: conn3ct3d (if not using a personal login)