Below is the recording of our second Healthy Weight and Treating Obesity Community of Practice session.
Will Smith (Healthier Weight and Treating Obesity Strategic Manager, North East and North Cumbria ICS) provided an update on the system workstreams.
We were joined by Lesley Barron (Poverty Proofing Co-ordinator from Children North East), who shared with us what poverty proofing is, its principles, the causes of poverty and the consequences. As a group, we considered the impact poverty has on people and their ability to lead a healthy lifestyle and what good practice exists in North East and North Cumbria to alleviate or mitigate the impact of poverty.
We used our collaborative wall space on Padlet to start mapping the services related to healthy weight and treating obesity that are available across our system.
This was our fourth session of the Healthy Weight and Treating Obesity Community of Practice.
Will Smith (Strategic Manager for Healthier Weight and Treating Obesity, North East and North Cumbria ICS) shared an update on the system-wide workstreams.
We were also joined by Dr. Susanna Mills (Consultant in Public Health at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Trust, and Research Fellow at Newcastle University), who led a session on Evidence-based recommendations for supporting healthy weight in people living with severe mental illness. She delivered this on behalf of Dr. Angela Rodrigues (Associate Professor in Psychology at Northumbria University), who contributed to developing the session but was unable to attend.
The session highlighted findings from recent research on weight management among people living with severe mental illness and included a group discussion on the practical implications of the evidence. A recording of the session is below:
