ArticleBMC health services research2017
The role of primary care in adult weight management: qualitative interviews with key stakeholders in weight management services.
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- Practical solutions to weight management in primary care.Nature medicine · 2026Article
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- Barriers and enablers to effective weight management for people living with overweight and obesity: A rapid scoping review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Article
- Pragmatic online obesity treatment in primary care: a hybrid randomized clinical trial of implementation strategies.NPJ cardiovascular health · 2024Article
- Supporting healthcare professionals to address child weight with parents: a qualitative study.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2024Article
- A Qualitative Exploration of Patient and Staff Experiences of the Receipt and Delivery of Specialist Weight Management Services in the UK.The patient · 2023Article
- Obese patients' dissatisfaction with weight, body image and clinicians' interaction at a district hospital; Gauteng.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2023Article
- Changing the narrative around obesity in the UK: a survey of people with obesity and healthcare professionals from the ACTION-IO study.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Professional stakeholder's views of adolescent weight management programmes: a qualitative study.BMC research notes · 2021Article
- Assessment of Physician Priorities in Delivery of Preventive Care.JAMA network open · 2020Article
- Weight assessment and the provision of weight management advice in primary care: a cross-sectional survey of self-reported practice among general practitioners and practice nurses in the United Kingdom.BMC family practice · 2020Article
- What works and why in the identification and referral of adults with comorbid obesity in primary care: A realist review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2020Review
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Abstract
backgroundPrimary care has a key role to play in the prevention and management of obesity, but there remain barriers to engagement in weight management by primary care practitioners. The aim of this study was to explore the views of key stakeholders in adult weight management services on the role of primary care in adult weight management.
methodsQualitative study involving semi-structured interviews with nine senior dietitians involved in NHS weight management from seven Scottish health boards. Transcripts were analysed using an inductive thematic approach.
resultsA range of tensions were apparent within three key themes: weight management service issues, the role of primary care, and communication with primary care. For weight management services, these tensions were around funding, the management model of obesity, and how to configure access to services. For primary care, they were around what primary care should be doing, who should be doing it, and where this activity should fit within wider weight management policy. With regard to communication between weight management services and primary care, there were tensions related to the approach taken (locally adapted versus centralised), the message being communicated (weight loss versus wellbeing), and the response from practitioners (engagement versus resistance).
conclusionsPrimary care can do more to support adult weight management, but this requires better engagement and communication with weight management services, to overcome the tensions highlighted in this study. This, in turn, requires more secure, sustained funding. The example of smoking cessation in the UK, where there is a network of well-resourced NHS Stop Smoking Services, accessible via different means, could be a model to follow.
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