Weight management

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Welcome to the Weight Management page. In terms of public health, obesity is a growing concern. Not only does it have psychological effects on the individual but increases risk of conditions such as type 2 diabetes and some cancers. The pharmacy team has an important role to play in raising awareness of the risks of being overweight and supporting people on their weight loss journey through advice and weight management services. The resources here will develop your understanding of the management of obesity and help you consider how to initiate those difficult discussions around weight and assessing a person’s motivation to lose weight. If you currently deliver or plan to deliver, a weight management service in the community you will find all the recommended learning here to complete your Declaration of Competence. This is such an important area of practice which the whole pharmacy team can be involved in. Access the resources here to find out how you can support people in the best way.

This e-learning programme will help improve your knowledge about the prevalence of overweight and obesity, the structure of weight management services in England and the structure and requirements of a tier two commissioned lifestyle weight management service.

It provides you with practical advice on how you can support patients on their own weight loss journey, including how to initiate the difficult discussion around weight management.

Are you completing this programme as part of the requirements for the Pharmacy Quality Scheme 2021/2022? If so, you can find more information on the steps you need to take to work towards meeting the training requirements for the gateway criteria, as well as the quality criteria within the different domains, on our Pharmacy Quality Scheme page.

Learning Objectives:

• outline the epidemiology of obesity
• use appropriate equipment and techniques to measure and categorise a person's degree of overweight or obesity
• describe the determinants and health risks of being overweight or obese and the benefits of maintaining a healthy weight
• assess a person's readiness to lose weight and willingness to modify behaviour to achieve and maintain an appropriate target weight
• describe a range of motivational and behavioural techniques to support weight management
• discuss the role of diet, physical activity, medicines and surgery in the management of weight and provide practical healthy lifestyle advice
• select the most appropriate intervention or referral pathway to other primary/secondary care specialist services where necessary, in line with local and national weight management strategies
• describe and implement a community pharmacy weight management service.

This is a video-based programme where you will watch experts demonstrating the key phrases, skills and techniques for a person-centred approach to consultations. The interactive activities will help you apply your learning to practice and make best use of the time during a consultation. You will also be able to explain the concept of clinical empathy and how to demonstrate this in practice.

Learning Objectives:

• apply key phrases to facilitate a patient-centred approach to your consultation
• demonstrate appropriate skills and behaviours to ensure the best use of time in the consultation
• explain the concept of clinical empathy and how it can be demonstrated
• rate consultation skills and techniques more confidently in preparation for the Consultation skills for pharmacy practice assessment.

The aim of this learning resource is to give you the skills, knowledge and confidence to deal professionally with any safeguarding issues that may arise in the course of your practice. Note that this programme was previously titled Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults – a guide for the pharmacy team.

Completion of the programme and the associated Level 2 assessment will fulfil the safeguarding requirements at Level 2 for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians as required by the intercollegiate documents Safeguarding children and young people and Adult safeguarding.

Completion of the programme and the associated Level 1 assessment will allow pharmacy support staff to prove their competence at Level 1 as required by the intercollegiate document Safeguarding children and young people and Adult safeguarding.

Learning Objectives:

• explain your role in safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and be aware of your legal, ethical and professional responsibilities
• describe the different types of abuse that children and vulnerable adults may be subjected to and know how to recognise the potential signs of abuse
• know who to contact for advice if you have concerns about the safety of a child or vulnerable adult
• take appropriate action if you suspect a case of abuse or neglect, including appropriately reporting and recording your concerns and sharing of information
• be able to identify and refer on an individual suspected of being a victim of trafficking, child sexual exploitation and female genital mutilation or at risk of radicalisation.

Please note: this programme and its associated assessment have been withdrawn from the CPPE portfolio (January 2022). You can now access the Patient Group Directions e-learning programme via Health Education England’s e-Learning for Healthcare hub.

Lose weight NHS choices webpage.

This document contains best practice guidance on developing a tier 2 lifestyle weight management service specification for adults and children. This document is not mandatory.

Pharmacy staff may be drawn into or have to initiate various difficult discussions. Dealing with difficult discussions e-learning programme builds on CPPE’s basic communication and consultation skills learning programmes to help staff undertake more difficult discussions with patients and others.

Learning Objectives:

• identify discussions that are potentially difficult for you or the patient
• reflect on your own values, attitudes and beliefs and recognise how these may affect how you deal with certain discussions
• identify barriers to effective communication in difficult discussions and find strategies to make this easier
• reflect on and plan strategies for conducting competent consultations on a broad range of difficult discussions.

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