Free Education and Training
The below resources and guidance can help with engaging patients in often difficult conversations about weight management and healthy lifestyles.
- Healthy weight coach e-learning programme is for primary care networks, healthcare and pharmacies. Please use this link. A reference guide has been developed for primary care networks, healthcare practices and pharmacies interested in training staff, and individuals interested in undertaking training, to become a healthy weight coach.
- For practical advice and tools to support health and care professionals make brief interventions in weight management for adults and/or children, please use these step by step visual guides: Adult and Children
- The Obesity Programme introduces obesity and its implications for health, provides a knowledge base on identification of unhealthy weight and risk factors for weight gain, managing obesity, and learning on guiding and enabling behaviour change.
- Making Every Contact Count training enables the delivery of consistent and concise health and wellbeing information and encourages individuals to engage in conversations about their health at scale across organisations and populations.