This page is for health professionals with patients.
Your role as a health professional can play an important role in influencing lifestyle behaviours.
Talking to your patients about their weight
It's important to speak to your patients about their weight. There is lots of support and resources on how to have brief conversations with your patients about their physical activity and weight:
- NICE guidance for adults in primary care
- Public Health England - adult weight management: short conversations with patients
- Moving Medicine - integrating physical activity conversations into clinical care
- Watch a video about supportive and effective conversations about weight management referrals on YouTube (00:07:16)
- Conversations about weight management with children and their families
- Guidance on childhood obesity
- NHS Healthier Families resources and guidance
- The Holiday Activities and Food programme
Educational resources and training
Resources and training to help prevent ill health and promote wellbeing as part of your everyday practice.
- All Our Health - physical activity resources
- All Our Health - healthy eating resources
- All Our Health - adult obesity resources
- Physical Activity Clinical Champions - is an evidence-based training programme for healthcare professionals to enable them to incorporate physical activity within routine care.
Making referrals to specialists
If you feel your patient would benefit from more tailored advice, you can refer patients to specialised services:
- NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme
- NHS Digital Weight Management Programme
- YourTrust exercise referral scheme
- Our Rochdale Connecting You
- Children's dietetics - make a referral and get more information
- Find a Health Visiting Service in Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale
- School nursing - make a referral and get more information
Make simple but impactful changes in your workplace
Sign up for the Active Practice Charter and join the national network of practices making positive changes in their surgeries to boost staff and patient wellbeing.