Obesity stigma can make talking about obesity a sensitive issue. The ‘5 steps on obesity’ guidance document provides support for you to start and continue the conversation to find the right management option for your particular patient.
Access our obesity risk calculator to quickly calculate your patients’ individual risk for obesity-related complications.
Management of obesity benefits from the input of a range of support people and services.
This factsheet can be used to help review different strategies a GP or nurse can use to engage with and assess a person living with obesity.
This factsheet outlines the principal goals of obesity management and provides an overview of the 3 major approaches.
This factsheet helps to outline the best approach to setting goals with your patients.
This factsheet explains the role regular monitoring of progress towards specific goals plays in a weight management program, and provides options for monitoring beyond weight scales.
This factsheet provides information and strategies to help re-engage and motivate patients when the going gets tough.
This factsheet helps to plan the follow-up approach you could take to support patients as they move through their weight management program.
This tool has been developed to help guide the management of obesity in primary care and to assist you with treatment decisions for your patients with overweight and obesity.
This obesity leaflet helps patients understand the multiple factors which influence body weight. It explains how genetics, environment and hormones can all contribute to making weight loss and maintaining it challenging for those living with overweight and obesity.
This form can be used in interactions when discussing first steps a patient can take when developing a weight management program. The form should be given to the patient to complete in the practice with the assistance of the GP/nurse or at home.
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