Guidance

Adult weight management: short conversations with patients

Practical advice and tools to support health and care professionals make brief interventions in weight management for adults.

Documents

Let’s talk about weight: a step-by-step guide to brief interventions with adults for health and care professionals

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Let’s talk about weight: infographic

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Details

This document offers tips on the short conversations health and care professionals should be having with overweight and obese patients about weight loss. It provides:

  • practical advice on how to discuss weight loss
  • tools to support making brief interventions

The University of Oxford has created Supportive and effective conversations about weight management referrals – video guidelines offering people with obesity a free-of-charge referral to weight management services.

Updates to this page

Published 21 June 2017
Last updated 1 March 2021 + show all updates
  1. Added link to Oxford University video on weight management referrals.

  2. First published.

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