Training and useful documents
CHYPS Plus is offering training to all practices about the You’re Welcome criteria (a set of standards to guide practices in becoming “young people friendly”). The training is workshop based and covers confidentiality when working with young people. If you would like to access this training, contact CHYPS Plus on 0208 919 5040 or email chyps@chpct.nhs.uk.
Counterweight
If you would like to find out more about counterweight, including how to get training for your practice staff contact Oonagh Griffin, Principal Community Dietician oonagh.griffin@chpct.nhs.uk
Pharmacists can go to www.caht.firstpct.org/pharmacy to keep up to date on training.
Useful Documents
City & Hackney tPCT Obesity Strategy 2007-10 »
Obesity Care Pathway and Your Weight, Your Health »
Comprises materials for health professionals as well as information to be given to patients. It includes Obesity Care Pathways for adults and children and a supporting booklet with detailed information for health professionals. In addition, there are tools to help GPs raise the rather sensitive issue of weight opportunistically with both adults and children
Public Health Resources for Pharmacy »
Pharmacists and their staff play an important role in their communities by helping people achieve better health and you are ideally placed to offer healthy lifestyle advice to patients and customers, particularly when dispensing their prescriptions.
The resources on this website have been designed to give pharmacists and their staff background information on brief advice (general health advice) and brief interventions (more in-depth discussions on single health topics) to help them deliver healthy lifestyle interventions.
National Obesity Forum
The National Obesity Forum is an independent charity, working to improve the prevention and management of obesity. The Forum was established by medical practitioners in May 2000 to raise awareness of the growing health impact that being overweight or obese was having on patients and the National Health Service.
nationalobesityforum.org.uk »
Lightening the load: talking overweight and obesity »
NICE Guidance of Physical Activity »
Nice Guidance on Physical Activity and the Environment »
Due to be published in January 2008
