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With so many patients unable to access obesity services there is a huge private market that is already paying for obesity treatments. By joining those healthcare professionals in the private market you are helping reduce the waiting times and burden on the NHS as well as being in charge of your own time and having control of your own finances and how much you need to work.
To help those living with overweight and obesity and to do it in a safe and compliant way
These are a group of patients that show real gratitude because you are able to change their lives and improve their health for the better.
Some obesity medicines have been proven to reduce strokes, heart attacks and deaths from those causes. By providing an efficacious reduction in cardio metabolic risk you are improving patients life and potentially life expectancy
Many obesity services are now fully remote. Learn how this can be done in a safe and compliant way enabling you to reduce the dead time of travel to and from work and of home visits.
It was apparent that there was a lack of good quality learning opportunities for the primary care physician. Little was provided by the usual societies for the GP and their team and so the decision was taken to offer teaching and training to help GPs with this unmet need. The teaching is accredited by the CPD service.
Understand obesity prevalence. Explain the definition of obesity and how to diagnose and strengths and weaknesses of measurements of obesity, Understand the health risks of living with obesity.
Explain the causes and drivers of obesity. Understand the importance of physical activity and an exercise prescription. Describe energy balance and its drivers. Understand energy intake and how it is regulated. Describe what happens after weight loss.
Be comfortable in introducing weight management into the consultation. How to consult and introduce the common side effects of drug therapy with the aim of mitigation.
Understand and be comfortable with safely prescribing all pharmacotherapy options that are available in the UK. Understand the mechanisms of action, efficacy and clinical trials, dosing, side effects and adverse events in the clinical trials and follow up. Warnings and contraindications. Understand the NICE guidelines
Safely manage common questions and queries arising from the follow up consultation including device demonstration, understanding the differences between devices.
Free from pharmaceutical sponsorship we have written the course with help of GPs with interests in weight management, consultants working in weight management and diabetes, academics and private providers of obesity care. The course will be delivered by GPs and or specialists.
Our lead author Dr Alun Davies is a GP with experience as a GP partner and as a private clinician in weight management. Founder of weight Loss Wales the first full virtual weight management clinic to be registered in Wales. He has extensive experience working in the pharmaceutical industry within the GLP-1 and dual agonist space. He is also lead tutor on the MSc obesity and weight management course for The University of South Wales.
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