Sustaining the health and adult social care workforce
What investments and actions are required to create a sustainable health and social care workforce?

A quarter of adults in the UK are clinically obese and therefore at an increased risk of developing chronic diseases. NHS advice is to eat fewer calories and take more exercise to lose weight. Increasingly, drug treatments and surgery are being considered as a means to lose weight for extremely obese people who have had difficulty in adhering to lifestyle changes. This briefing discusses the current methods used to manage and treat obesity.
Obesity Treatments (358 KB , PDF)
Obesity Treatments (358 KB , PDF)
What investments and actions are required to create a sustainable health and social care workforce?
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