The latest report says that doctors and nurses should be slim and healthy, so they are easier to give advice and feedback to the patient to want to live healthy, avoiding obesity, smoking cessation and regular physical activity.
"Prior to dictate to patients, health care should apply to himself,"
Not only doctors and nurses, the report is aimed at all NHS medical staff, including pharmacists, midwives, optometrists, dentists and physiotherapists. It is intended to improve mental and physical well-being of patients.
"There are millions of opportunities every day for the NHS to help improve the health and welfare of the community and reducing health inequalities, but to take this opportunity need to be different views about how to use contacts with the public," said the report.
Routine dental examinations or tests the eyes for example, is an opportunity to offer suggestions to help someone to quit smoking. Midwife visits are also an opportunity to talk about the anxieties of new parents and consider options for accessing mental health support.
Taking drugs from pharmacies are offering the opportunity to help a person to stop consuming alcohol. While the pre-operation inspection is an opportunity to talk over concerns about the activity of smoking, diet and physical activity.
"Health professionals need to change the way they use their time to achieve this goal," according to a report Future Forum, which was established as an independent group of group of doctors, representatives of voluntary patients to advise the government on the controversial Health and Social Care Bill.
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