Significant progress has been made against an action plan to improve weight management support in primary and community care, according to a new report by Public Health Wales.

The new report says that substantial activity has occurred in relation to 24 out of 29 actions set out in the Primary Care Obesity Prevention Action Plan.  However, there is still much more to do, especially in areas that are wider in scope than obesity prevention.

The report also makes a series of recommendations to ensure progress continues.

These include the need to:

• Maintain and build on momentum achieved in key areas of work, including post-natal health and well-being, embedding obesity prevention into clinical pathways, and developing resources for the primary and community care workforce.
• Understand the impact of activities through evaluation, for example contractual developments to support prevention in primary care.  
• Address challenges to progress related to prevention more broadly than obesity prevention alone, for example on digital developments and workforce well-being.

Alongside the report, Public Health Wales is also publishing an infographic to help policy makers, practitioners and researchers to better support postnatal weight management in primary and community care.

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