Who should take action?

• Council leaders and elected members
• Local authority chief executive officers
• Health and wellbeing boards
• Directors of public health
• Executive directors of local authority services
• Local NHS Trusts
• Local Healthwatch
• Leaders of local voluntary and community organisations
• Clinical commissioning groups
• Local education and training boards

Actions

• All of the above should ensure, through the health and wellbeing board, a coherent, community-wide, multi-agency approach is in place to address obesity prevention and management.​

• Activities should be integrated within the joint health and wellbeing strategy and broader regeneration and environmental strategies.​

• Action should also be aligned with other disease-specific prevention and health improvement strategies such as initiatives outlined in other NICE guidance and pathways to prevent type 2 diabetes, cancers, and cardiovascular disease, as well as broader initiatives, such as those to promote good maternal and child nutrition or mental health or prevent harmful drinking.