Join UK Healthcare and Life Sciences Innovation (UKHLSI) and Curia for our next Obesity Working Group meeting, focusing on how access to effective obesity treatment and long-term care can be improved across the NHS.
With new treatments transforming the possibilities for obesity care, the challenge is ensuring that innovation translates into meaningful improvements for patients. Despite growing recognition of obesity as a complex, chronic condition, access to treatment remains inconsistent, raising important questions about how the NHS can deliver more equitable and sustainable services.
Building on UKHLSI and Curia’s previous work, including the Parliamentary Obesity Summit and NHS Obesity Sprint, this meeting will explore what needs to change to make effective obesity care more accessible and how policy ambitions can be translated into practical NHS delivery.
The discussion will inform the next phase of the Obesity Working Group’s recommendations, helping shape a more joined-up approach to obesity care across the health service.
To find out more, contact enquiries@ukhlsi.co.uk.
Join UK Healthcare and Life Sciences Innovation (UKHLSI) and Curia for the fourth session in our NHS Modernisation Bill member evidence series, focused on prevention, population health, wider determinants of health, and the adoption of innovation.
This members-only roundtable will bring together UKHLSI and Curia members, NHS leaders, public health experts, local government, frontline professionals, innovators and policy stakeholders to explore how the health and care system can move further from treating sickness towards preventing ill health. Lunch is provided, with an online dial-in available from 12.30–1.30pm.
Prevention is central to the Government’s ambition to create a more sustainable health service, but delivering this shift will require action far beyond traditional healthcare settings. Population health is shaped by a wide range of factors including housing, employment, education, environment, access to services and socioeconomic circumstances.
The challenge is therefore not simply identifying what works, but ensuring that proven interventions and innovations can be adopted at scale, embedded across systems and targeted towards the communities that stand to benefit most.
The discussion will consider:
• How the NHS can move from treating sickness towards preventing ill health
• How population health and prevention can be embedded across NHS reform
• How the wider determinants of health, including housing, employment and environment, can be better reflected in decision-making
• How the NHS, local government, public health, community services and other partners can work more effectively together
• How innovation, technology and data can support earlier intervention and prevention
• How proven preventative interventions can be adopted and scaled more effectively across the health and care system
• How reform can help reduce health inequalities and improve outcomes across different communities
The session will inform a member recommendations paper on prevention, population health, health inequalities, wider determinants, partnership working, innovation adoption and the practical implementation of the NHS Modernisation Bill.
This event is part of UKHLSI and Curia’s wider programme of member engagement on the NHS Modernisation Bill, moving the conversation from legislation to implementation.
To find out more, contact enquiries@ukhlsi.co.uk.
