Health Spot

6 Ardencraig Street

Castlemilk

Glasgow

G45 0ER

Tel:  0141 560 3034/5

Fax:  0141 560 3036

Email:  questions@healthspot.org.uk

Web:    www.healthspot.org.uk

Co-ordination   Leeanne Young

Design              Gary O’Connor

Text Edit          Gordon Adams    

© Health Spot, 2006.  A Glasgow South East Regeneration Agency Ltd. Project

To empower all people aged 12-25 years to access appropriate services and enable them to make informed choices about all aspects of their health and well being.

• Service users have a right to be clear about what to expect from Health Spot.  Information should be clear, accessible and reflect the complexity of health issues and services.

• Service users should be encouraged to be autonomous and feel able to make their own decisions about their health in a way that enables them to respect themselves and others.

• Practical skills such as assertiveness and the development of self-esteem are central to the facilitation of good health.

• All health issues should be talked about honestly in a manner that promotes positive discussion.

• Health Spot services should be accessible to all and affirm diversity at all times.

• Professionals should strive for a consistent, non-judgemental, empathetic approach, which values all service users and challenges discrimination.

• Service users have a right to be involved in health promotion interventions at every level.

• Health Spot practice should be evidence based; using a range of needs assessments and research. This will form a platform for innovative and creative work based on actual as opposed to perceived need.