A new report produced for Foresight by the Royal College of Physicians says that, in future, every health professional will need to be trained to identify people at risk from increasing body weight, and be skilled at managing obesity.
The dramatic increase in the prevalence of obesity in the UK, in the last 20 years, has not been matched by a similar expansion of education and training in how to care for obese patients. The training of health professionals for the prevention and treatment of overweight and obesity outlines the knowledge and skills needed to be able to diagnose, manage and treat overweight and obese people, whether their medical condition is linked to obesity or not.
