COURSES
WHAT WE DO
NHS HEALTH CHECK
COURSES
WHAT WE DO
HEALTH CHECK

Isle of Wight

Motivational Interviewing and Communication of Risk training

In-Person

5th March 2026

Time: 12.30am – 4.00pm

CPD: 3.5 hours

Overview

Having those difficult conversations with patients can be, well, difficult.

Join Michaela in a safe environment for a free, fun and interactive training.

Find out more about how you can improve your practice in the delivery of the NHS Health Check by having more effective conversations with your patients about cardiovascular risk, body weight, alcohol, smoking and physical activity.

Our Motivational Interviewing and Communication of Risk training gives health care professionals the skills and confidence to make every conversation count.

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand the foundational principles and concepts of Motivational Interviewing
  • Explore the core skills and techniques used in Motivational Interviewing, such as open-ended questions, reflective listening, and summarising
  • Learn strategies for evoking and reinforcing change talk and enhancing motivation for behaviour change
  • Gain confidence in supporting patients to make healthier choices,
  • Learn how to make appropriate referrals to lifestyle services
  • Identify how an NHS Health Check can assess and interpret the risk of cardiovascular disease
  • State how the risk of cardiovascular disease and opportunities for reducing this risk may best be communicated
  • Appreciate the different risk communication strategies
  • Increase confidence in undertaking GPPAQ and AUDIT-C

Who should attend

Anyone involved in the delivery of health checks including:
    • Nurse
    • Nursing Associate
    • Practice Nurses
    • Nurse Practitioners
    • Advanced Practitioner 
    • GPs
    • GP Assistant
    • Healthcare Assistants
    • Care Coordinators
    • Social Prescribers

 

    • Pharmacists
    • Pharmacy Team
    • Allied Healthcare Professionals
    • Health Trainers & Champions
    • Healthy Lifestyle Professionals
    • Apprentice HCA
    • General Practice Associates
    • Health and Wellbeing
    • Health Care Support Worker
    • Phlebotomist
    • Physicians Associate
    • Practice Manager
    • Public Health

Registration Process

  • Complete the registration form below.
  • You will receive a confirmation email with details of how to join the training within one week of your registration.
  • Reminders are sent before the training.
  • Please check spam before contacting us.

Cancellation Process

  • We understand that sometimes plans change.
  • If you need to cancel, please contact us as soon as possible to open up the space for others.
  • Our training is free for you to attend, paid for by your public health commissioner. If you don’t attend the training you have booked, your commissioner is charged.
  • Your public health commissioner is informed of your registration, attendance or DNA. If you do not attend on the day, your public health commissioner will be charged the full price for your training place.

Venue

 

Westridge Conference Centre,

Brading Rd, Ryde,

PO33 1QS 

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Care Navigator

The speaker presented clearly and enthusiastically plus entertaining. I thoroughly enjoyed every part of the training.

Healthcare Assistant

It’s always pleasure to attend these trainings, Michaela delivers with enthusiasm and makes these trainings even more interesting and enjoyable. She’s a superstar!!!!! Thank you! 

Health and Wellbeing Coach

I enjoyed being able to collaborate with others and get perspectives from those who have been in the job many years as I am only new to the role.

Healthcare Assistant

I thought it was good being able to act out how a difficult conversation with a potential difficult patient could be and how we can try and turn the conversation around.

Healthcare Assistant

I enjoyed the interaction as it was like having conversations with patients who want the help and patients who don’t.

Social Prescribing Link Worker

It really helped that Michaela was enthusiastic and engaged with us as a group very well. There is a lot of key information to absorb and she used her experience as a cardiovascular nurse to help with our learning. I enjoyed the role playing

Practice Nurse

I really enjoyed hearing other peoples experiences and thought the break out sessions were brilliant for that

Tobacco Control Specialist Adviser

Brilliant trainer, the session was well planned with a chance to participate in alot of practice of motivational interviewing.

Healthcare Assistant

I thought it was good being able to act out how a difficult conversation with a potential difficult patient could be and how we can try and turn the conversation around.

Care Coordinator

Michaela is amazing. Have had training with her before and looked forward to coming back today. Her way of presenting really sticks in your mind and is very present and attention catching. Learned loads today and will use it in daily practice. Thank you

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Meet the trainers

Michaela Nuttall RGN MSc

Michaela Nuttall RGN MSc

Director

NHS Health Check Training Lead

Michaela is a Cardiovascular Nurse Specialist, Director at Smart Health Solutions and founder of Learn With Nurses. She is the former Head of CVD Prevention for Public Health England and Clinical Advisor at OHID. She is the Chair of the Heart UK Health Care Committee and a member of the Nurses and AHP & The Guidelines and Information Working Party of the British and Irish Hypertension Society.

Una O'Connor RGN MSc FHEA

Una O'Connor RGN MSc FHEA

Independent Nurse Consultant

NHS Health Check Trainer

Una is an Independent Nurse Consultant. Education is a priority for her, having achieved PGCE, PG Dip and Master of Science Degree in Medical and Healthcare Education and she is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her passion for promotion and delivery of teaching led to the role of Communications and Engagement Lead for Learn With Nurses and Una is currently the Operations Manager for both Smart Health Solutions and Learn With Nurses.

We are a registered Centre for the Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH), and HEART UK supports our cardiovascular training. The NHS Health Check Competency Framework underpins our training.

We are proud of our strong heritage in supporting the NHS Health Check Programme, especially for training we have been providing since 2008.

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