Report from 2009-2010

 

Wales: 3 Meetings – Dr Nadim Haboubi

 

1^st Meeting, 12 May 2009

 

Speakers

Dr Ilona Boniwell, Behavioural Change

Jane Waites, Ways to Get People More Active More Often and For Life

Catherine Collins, ‘My Top 10 Weight Loss Tips’

Julie Nedyn, Dietetic Obesity mapping across Wales

Janette Gray, Specialist Weight Management Clinic

 

Workshops

 

• What specific challenges around working with obesity in Wales?
• Are we fighting a losing battle? Media/Culture
• Is the role of commercial weight loss companies collaboration or competition with us?
• Where do we want Weight Management Services to be in 10 years’ time? What will be happening?

 

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2^nd Meeting, 19 November 2009 (pm meeting)

 

Speakers

Dr Tony Jewell, Obesity in Wales – Where do we go from here?

Judith John, MEND

Carol Weir, Rotherham Model

Dr Nadim Haboubi, Blaenau Gwent Model

Mr Ashraf Rasheed, Weight Loss Surgery in Wales

Sian Bodman, The bid for Weight Management Services

 

 

Sponsors

Abbott, LighterLife, AstraZeneca, MEND, sanofi-aventis

 

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3^rd Meeting, 20^th May 2010

 

Speakers

Dr Jane Wilkinson, the All Wales Obesity Pathway

Lisa Williams, Helen Nicholls, Nadim Haboubi, Simon Wood, Existing Practices

Prof Nick Finer, Obesity – Who’s Job Is It?  The Role of Primary Care and Secondary Care

Dr Jeffrey Stephens, Obesogenic drugs

Sally Lau, drugs for obesity - The old, the new, and over the counter drugs

Nuha Haboubi, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Sioned Quirke, the role of level 4 Dietitian’s

Dev Datta, Charing Cross Model

Sian Jones, audit of a Level 3 service in Wales 

 

Workshops

A)  How to Implement Level 1 - Judith John

B)  How to Implement Level 2 - Helen Nicholls

C) ‘How to prevent an overweight child from becoming obese’ - Clare Norris

D) ‘Weight Gain in Pregnancy. How and when should this be managed?’ - Sian Bodman

E)  How to Implement Level 3 - Sian Jones

F)  How to Implement Level 4 - Ashraf Rasheed

G) ‘Elderly Obese Patients. Is it worth managing them and how to do it?’ - Nadim Haboubi

H) ‘Obese Patients with Psychiatric Illness or Learning Difficulties’ - Alison Sparks

 

 

This meeting was supported by Physical Activity & Nutrition Networks for Wales

 

 

 

Number of members that have attended: 160