Diet and healthy weight: monitoring report 2019

Latest results against the obesity indicator framework originally developed to monitor progress against our Prevention of Obesity Route Map (February 2010), now superseded by the Diet and Healthy Weight Delivery Plan and Active Scotland Delivery Plan (summer 2018).


Healthy Living Awards

NHS Health Scotland

Latest results

  • In 2019, a total of 776 catering establishments held the Healthy Living Award (HLA) or HLA Plus award.
  • Of these, 150 are first term HLA awards and 388 are renewed awards. A further 238 establishments hold the Healthy Living Plus Award.
  • There has been a decrease of 4% in the number of establishments holding an award since 2018.

Table 1. Number of businesses securing Healthy Living Awards[23]

Date Current Awards First Term Renewals Plus
October 2006 6 6
October 2007 140 140
October 2008 374 374
October 2009 602 496 106
October 2010 656 353 283 20
October 2011 675 295 291 89
October 2012 680 241 315 124
October 2013 625 185 315 125
October 2014 686 231 273 182
October 2015 757 260 294 203
October 2016 776 246 332 198
October 2017 798 214 352 232
October 2018 808 183 385 240
October 2019 776 150 388 238

Geography available
Scotland level.

Equalities data
Not applicable.

Rationale for including healthy living awards

These data are useful to assess the take-up of Healthy Living awards by companies. The Healthy Living Award, introduced in 2006, recognises catering establishments for serving healthier food and finding ways of helping their customers make better food choices. The award is open to all kinds of catering places from sandwich shops to staff restaurants, and increasing the number of establishments with this award will play a part in improving diet across Scotland.

For all organisations already participating, the Healthy Living Award plus offers an opportunity to achieve step increases in the required ratio of healthy options to other options on the menus from participating caterers.

Evidence from existing literature[24] suggests a low level of evidence for the effectiveness of consumer targeted incentives but with potentially high levels of population effectiveness.

Factors influencing healthy living awards

Exposure to high energy foods.

Contact

Email: scottishhealthsurvey@gov.scot

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