NICE is developing public health programme guidance on preventing obesity using a ‘whole-system’ approach at local and community level.

All registered stakeholders for the above public health programme guidance are invited to comment on the draft scope.

This consultation will take place between 15 January - 12 February 2010.

Please provide all responses to this draft scope using the Stakeholder Comments Form (ensuring all relevant fields are completed, including your organisation's name) and forwarding this by 5pm on Friday 12 February at the very latest to the following email address: PreventingObesityCA@nice.org.uk

Consultation Documents

Preventing obesity: a whole-system approach: draft scope

Preventing obesity: a whole-system approach: stakeholder comments form 

The Institute is unable to accept:

• More than one response per stakeholder organisation
• Comments received after the consultation deadline
• Comments that are not on the correct proforma
• Confidential information or other material that you would not wish to be made public.

What will happen to your comments

• All comments (with the exception of personal, individual comments and late comments) will be sent to the project team at the end of the consultation
• Comments from registered stakeholders will be formally responded to by the project team and posted on the NICE website after the final scope is published
• No action will be taken upon receipt of personal, individual comments and late comments.
• Please note: The Institute reserves the right to summarise and edit comments received during consultations, or not to publish them at all, where in the reasonable opinion of the Institute, the comments are voluminous, publication would be unlawful or publication would be otherwise inappropriate.