Diet and healthy weight: monitoring report 2019

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]

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.