Obesity

Nursing You has been developed as part of the Healthy Weight Initiative for Nurses (WIN) and is designed to help nurses make healthy choices at work and maintain a healthy weight. 

• Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. Measuring up. The medical professions prescription for the nations obesity crisis (2013) 
• Cancer research UK. Information for health care professionals on obesity and cancer. This page includes fact sheets and other information and links to the RCGP's open learning resource on supporting behaviour change.
• Department of Health and Social Care (2019) Time to solve childhood obesity: an independent report by the Chief Medical Officer. This reports calls for action across industry and the public sector to help the government reach its target of halving childhood obesity by 2030
• Department of Health. Start active, stay active: infographics on physical activity 
• Obesity Health Alliance. A coalition of over 30 organisations who are working together to influence Government policy on overweight and obesity. It Includes a number or useful reports and briefings on obesity and food
• Royal College of Physicians. Action on obesity: comprehensive care for all, (2015)
• Royal College of General Practitioners. Nutrition. Resources and elearning links on obesity
• WHO. Ending childhood obesity (2016). Final report of the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity.

England

Public Health England (PHE) provides information on data, evaluation, evidence and research related to weight status and its determinants. Including information on the National Child Measurement Programme NCMP.

• Health matters: whole systems approach to obesity. A professional resource for local authorities and their local systems partners
• Public Health England guidance on UK physical activity
• Public Health England: Start active, stay active: report and infographics on physical activity in the UK
• England: Change 4 Life advice on diet and physical activity
• Public Health England. The Eatwell Guide (2016)

Scotland

Take life on, one step at a time - this website offers practical advice for making small but important changes

Wales

Change4Life Wales - this website provides simple advice to improve health and well being

Northern Ireland

Get a life, get active. Advice on how to get more activity into daily life, to help improve health. See also: the obesity prevention strategy for NI ‘A Fitter Future for All'

Public health NICE guidance

• NICE guidance (PH53): Managing overweight and obesity in adults – lifestyle weight management services. Recommendations on the provision of effective multi-component lifestyle weight management services for adults (18 or over) who are overweight or obese.
• NICE guidance (PH47): Managing overweight and obesity among children and young people: lifestyle weight management services. Recommendations on lifestyle weight management (sometimes called tier 2) services for overweight and obese children and young people aged under 18.
• NICE guidance (PH42): Obesity: working with local communities. Supports effective, sustainable and community-wide action to prevent obesity. It sets out how local communities, with support from local organisations and networks, can achieve this.
• NICE guidance (NG69) Eating disorders: recognition and treatment. Guidance covering the key points around what eating disorders are, how they are identified, and the methods available to manage them.
• NICE quality standard (QS111): Obesity in adults: prevention and lifestyle weight management programmes. This quality standard covers ways of preventing adults becoming overweight or obese and the provision of lifestyle weight management programmes for adults who are overweight or obese.

RCN resources

See: Nutrition and hydration clinical topic page.

See: Supporting behaviour change clinical topic page.

Nursing You has been developed as part of the Healthy Weight Initiative for Nurses (WIN) and is designed to help nurses make healthy choices at work and maintain a healthy weight.

Other resources

• Adult Malnutrition in the community. A practical guide and pathway to assist community healthcare professionals in identifying and managing the 3 million people in the UK at risk of disease-related malnutrition. It has been developed by a multi-professional team and is supported/endorsed by ten key organisations.
• See The E-learning for health portal on All Our Health: Adult Obesity. If you haven’t already done so you need to create an e-learning account. This is free of charge.