Dr. Fiona Mansergh:

The national physical activity plan aims to have more people meeting the national physical activity guidelines - 30 minutes a day, five days a week - enabling more people to be more active, more often. It is implemented in collaboration with a range of other Departments, agencies and the academic sector and, in particular, the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, who are the co-leads, and Sport Ireland. The national sexual health strategy focuses on promotion, education and prevention, and includes sexual health services, such as the STI clinics. Recent initiatives have included, for example, HIV Ireland's Fast-Track Cities, pre-exposure for prophylaxis or PrEP, and the expansion of the national condom distribution service.

Healthy Ireland has been running a series of information campaigns since 2018. Latterly, these have been adapted to take account of the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, aiming to support everybody’s resilience through this difficult period. The latest campaign, Keep Well, is now wrapping up. It provided supports for keeping active and being outdoors during the winter, supports for individual activity, staying connected with people safely, addressing isolation, supporting volunteerism and initiatives that support person-to-person connection. A community call helpline was available to those most in need.Switching off and Being Creative, in partnership with Creative Ireland, helped to learn something new, to get back to nature, relaxation and to take up a new hobby. Eating Well is supported by the HSE,safefood and others. I should mention our support of RTÉ’s Operation Transformation this year, which reached out to approximately 400,000 to 500,000 people with advice on exercise and healthy eating. Finally, the Managing Your Mood campaign supported positive mental health and gave people supports on where to go if they were in distress. It linked to relevant information points, for example, the HSE’s mental health service, Your Mental Health, Jigsaw and SpunOut. I will now hand over to Ms Harlin to talk about scaling and mainstreaming integration innovation.