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Dr Kellie Turner

29 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5

For me, that just makes me think of the fundamental thing: we need to focus on relational working, rather than tasks or specific 'mental health' or 'physical health'. All of these difficulties, I think, come back to the huge evidence that all these difficulties can be supported by better relational…

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Dr Claire Lane

29 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5

In my opinion, and I’m owning it as my opinion, it’s because the system is already so stressed and people have so many things that they’re trying to do all at once that they can’t make any space for it. Resourcing is an issue. That would be my response to that. I think that’s the barrier.

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Dr Claire Lane

29 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5

I was going to say that I don't necessarily think that it's the strategies that are a problem, because, when you read through them, you can tell that they're coming from a good place; there are a lot of good things written in there. I think the problem comes in the implementation of those. It’s the…

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Dr Kellie Turner

29 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5

I'm trying to think if there's a way—. So, I think there's a balance to be struck, really. I wouldn't want—Claire might disagree, and that's okay, but—I wouldn't want to say to scrap all strategies, but I do feel sometimes like there are a lot of different things to keep on top of when you're…

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Dr Kellie Turner

29 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5

I think what I'm aware of is that it comes back to the 'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales' strategy and the pathway. And I think, for me, although it has some great ideas in it, practically, I'm not sure I see that all the time, and I think what I have seen is pockets of things. I'm very aware that…

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Dr Kellie Turner

29 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5

I was just going to add about the practicalities of the joined-up working, and thinking about, even, our systems, the computer systems that we use across the NHS and local authority, and then even mental health versus physical health, are different. That makes it quite tricky, I guess, thinking as a…

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Dr Claire Lane

29 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5

Sure. So, I don't think that it's a surprise to anybody sitting around this table that we do know that there's a bi-directional relationship between mental health and physical health, and also, I guess, social well-being and personal well-being as well. What I would say in terms of health services…

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Mabon ap GwynforPlaid

29 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5

Could one of you tackle this issue of the silo-based approach, that we treat people in silos and look at one element only, without looking at everything else that is related to the condition or the individual? If we could tackle that first.

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Mabon ap GwynforPlaid

29 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5

…I assume that you do agree that that does happen, but how can we overcome that, that we look at obesity without looking at the other elements that are part of that? How much do you think it is to do with people suffering or living with obesity having mental health issues that should be looked at…

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Dr Kellie Turner

29 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5

There needs to be a holistic view of a person and their family. Rather than focusing on just weight, or just this health condition, or just their mental health, we need much more freedom to be able to join those things up.

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Dr Claire Lane

29 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5

Kellie, you triggered something off in my mind there, just thinking back to the question that Joyce asked about weight stigma. There's been a lot of research done on weight stigma, and there's one researcher who's quite prominent in the field, Rebecca Puhl, and I know that one of the things that she…

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Dr Kellie Turner

29 January 2025, Health and Social Care Committee

Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence sessions - Panel 5

I would add—. I don't know if this feels relevant, but I'm aware that, in places like paediatric diabetes services, they do looking at the workforce and the make-up—I don't know the exact calculation, sorry, but—looking at exactly how much of each kind of staff member they need for the population…

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