Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 2
5th Report - Food and Weight Management: Modernising obesity treatment
Published 23 Oct 2026
Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
Obesity is a lifelong, relapsing and remitting condition that requires ongoing management. We recommend that the government and NHS consistently define obesity in this way and believe that adopting this position will help drive change, particularly in the public perception of obesity. Weight management services need to be overhauled to reflect this way of viewing obesity, treating it in a similar manner to other long-term conditions. (Recommendation, Paragraph 15)
From: Health and Social Care Committee, 5th Report - Food and Weight Management: Modernising obesity treatment (HC 518), 23 October 2026
Government response
Government response awaited: deadline 23 December 2026.