Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 5
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)
The government should develop a modern service framework for obesity, recognising it as a lifelong condition and setting clear standards and targets that Integrated Care Boards are both supported in, and held accountable for, delivering. (Recommendation, Paragraph 21) 34 Designing an obesity modern service framework
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.