I am a full time GP Principle & Senior partner specialising in obesity, metabolic syndrome and related conditions. I am a Physician in Obesity Medicine at the Centre for Obesity research at Luton & Dunstable Hospital.
Other roles include: Clinical Director, & immediate former Chair National Obesity Forum. The NOF is an independent charity, formed in 2000.
Its aims are to increase awareness of obesity as a medical condition in the context of cardiometabolic disease, and improve its management in clinical care. It undertakes sole sponsorship and secretariat of Government’s All Party.
A Parliamentary Group on Obesity, and has an advisory role to Government Bodies, NICE, HSC etc. NOF Regional Obesity Groups currently forming with a remit to ‘roll out’ best practice in obesity management to Primary Care nationwide, backed by a ‘virtual’ internet based network, acting as an archive, database and forum for obesity-related activity.
