Source · Select Committees · Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 11
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Integrate body image training into medical, nursing, and parent-interacting professional programmes within two years.
Recommendation
We urge Health Education England, the General Medical Council and Nursing and Midwifery Council to collaborate with third sector organisations that are currently educating people about, and promoting awareness of, body image issues, and after a period of assessment, integrate the most effective existing training and resources into all training programmes within the medical, nursing and midwifery fields within the next two years. We echo the Mental Health Foundation’s recommendation for any further training for professionals interacting with parents - that is, GPs, health visitors, dietitians and other frontline practitioners - to include information about how parents and carers can, from a very early age, positively influence their children’s feelings about their bodies through the behaviours and attitudes they express. (Paragraph 77) The balance of tackling obesity and reducing weight stigma
Government response summary AI-generated
The government's response does not address the recommendation to integrate body image training into medical, nursing, and midwifery curricula. Instead, it discusses the lack of plans for nationally required annual holistic health and wellbeing assessments and the existing health visiting and school nurse delivery model.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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HEE , GMC and NMC welcome this recommendation, and all are committed to ensuring that healthcare professionals have the necessary resources and training to discuss and address body image issues.
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