As a leading national weight management service provider, Vita Clinics are delighted to be sponsoring The National Obesity Conference: Reversing the Tide of Obesity – Working Together to Create an Active, Healthier Nation on Wednesday 1st July 2009, Grange Holborn Hotel, London, 09:30 – 16:00.

The government has set itself the goal of being the first major nation to reverse the rising tide of obesity and overweight in the population. For this ambition to be met it is essential that all sectors from the early years, to schools and food, from sport and physical activity to planning, transport and the health service are joint up. This conference will examine how this ambition can become a reality at local and national levels, as well as looking at the management of obesity through evidence based programmes aimed at the maintenance of weight loss.

Vita Clinics is also exhibiting at this event. In addition, Dr Carel Le Roux, Vita Clinic’s UK Bariatric Physician Advisor, is also delivering a presentation entitled “Reducing the impact of obesity – the role and cost effectiveness of bariatric surgery”. He will focus on the growing economic impact of morbid obesity on society and the NHS, why bariatric surgery is the treatment of choice for appropriately selected patients, and the long term cost-effectiveness, health and quality of life outcomes for patients undergoing surgery in expert hands and with specialist long-term follow-up.

For more information, click here http://insidegovernment.co.uk/health/obesity_activity/