Who should take action?

• Local bodies with a scrutiny function (such as health overview and scrutiny committees)
• Local Healthwatch

Actions

• Local bodies with a scrutiny function (such as health overview and scrutiny committees) should assess local action on preventing obesity, ensuring that commissioning meets the breadth of the joint health and wellbeing strategy. This includes:

• the impact of wider policies and strategies
• organisational development and training on obesity to ensure a system-wide approach
• the extent to which services aimed at tackling obesity are reaching those most in need and addressing inequalities in health.

• Local bodies with a scrutiny function should be encouraged to include plans of action to prevent obesity within their rolling programme of service reviews.​

• Local Healthwatch should ensure the views of the local community are reflected in the development and delivery of the local approach to obesity. They should also scrutinise the priority given to obesity prevention by local health and wellbeing boards and the implementation of local obesity strategies.