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Obesity Care

From core clinical skill to specialist expertise

Almost two in three adults are overweight or living with obesity (Health Survey for England, 2024), and most clinicians see them every week. 

Obesity care is no longer a specialist concern. It has become a core clinical skill, and one of the most valuable a clinician can develop today.

What Is Obesity Care?

Obesity care spans the knowledge and skills to assess, manage and support patients living with obesity as a chronic disease.

Patient assessment

Assess obesity as the complex, chronic condition it is, looking beyond BMI to the full clinical picture.

Evidence-based management

Match treatment to the patient using approaches grounded in current evidence, not generic advice.

Compassionate communication

Recognise and counter weight stigma, and support patients in a way that builds trust rather than shame.

Why Obesity Care Matters

Obesity is a chronic disease. It sits at the intersection of biology, behaviour, psychology and environment. It is linked to type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, certain cancers and reduced life expectancy, touching almost every part of healthcare.

More than 890 million adults are living with obesity globally (World Health Organization, 2024). Managing it well calls for more than general advice. It requires a real understanding of the condition and the practical skills to deliver care.

Your Professional Development

New, more effective treatments and updated NICE guidance have raised what practitioners are expected to know about obesity. The basics no longer cover it. The right training closes that gap. 
CCH courses are CPD-accredited, so the time you invest counts towards your appraisal and revalidation as well as your own practice.

How To Develop Your Obesity Care Expertise

CCH offers two routes into obesity care:

CPD-on-demand courses – evidence-based training you can apply straight away, for practitioners adding obesity care to their existing work.
Postgraduate modules – academic and critical, for those who want to examine the research and guidelines at postgraduate depth.

CPD-on-Demand Courses

Obesity
Essentials

Move beyond the basics. Learn to assess obesity properly and support patients in an environment built against them.

🔖  £39.00

10 CPD points

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Nutrition & Weight Management

What does effective weight management look like in modern clinical practice, in the GLP-1RA era?

🔖 £59.00

6 CPD points

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Childhood Obesity Essentials

Paediatric obesity is not adult care scaled down. Different assessment, different interventions, different rules.

🔖  £39.00

6 CPD points

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See all CPD Short Courses offered by CCH

Postgraduate Study

Postgraduate Certificate
(PGCert)

Three postgraduate-level modules taking you from the causes and consequences of obesity, through the evidence on what works, to a precision approach for the individual patient.

Learnt through bespoke online platform with the support of a professional tutor.

 

Complete all three to earn a postgraduate award from CCH.

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What Healthcare Professionals Say

Physical Activity Manager
“Great content and detailed information provided throughout the course. I enjoyed it and learned a lot from it.”

Lead Diabetes Research Nurse
“CCH courses changed our clinical practice. All of my staff who have completed the Postgraduate modules and the short courses have found them excellent.”

School Nurse
“That was such an amazing course and I would strongly recommend for it to be converted to a postgraduate credit-bearing course.”

Council Worker
“I have found this course very useful and with the knowledge that I have got, I am now familiar with services in the authority which can support those who have excess weight.”

School Nurse
“This was an excellent and well-organised course.”

Nurse
“With this module, from now on, I will see obesity as a problem caused by a variety of factors and not just an energy balance.”

Public Health
“Having done one module in this course, it has made a difference to my practice already with different methods of communicating information to clients especially around the psychology of obesity.”

Nutritionist
“The course was really well put together. Thank you!”

Public Health Public Health, SHWT
“Such a great course! I think this will really benefit the Southwark residents if we get all health and non-healthcare professionals to take these courses.”

Not Sure Where To Start?

For most practitioners, CPD-on-demand is the place to begin. Choose the one closest to the patients you see, and you can put it to work in your next clinic.
The postgraduate modules ask more of you: more time, and a deeper, more questioning approach to the evidence. They suit practitioners who want to study the field in greater depth.
Click here and browse CPD courses. Click here and explore postgraduate study with CCH.