Table 4. Percentage of clinicians responding to components of their routine advice about weight management, self management and general education.

Questions in the clinician questionnaire	% Yes(N 487to 491)	Which ONEwould youdo?## (N 416)	Corresponding questions inpatient questionnaire	% “Yes” or“Almost Always”	Correlation between patient and clinician responses#
“Providing advice about weight management to patients whose BMI is above target is something for me that routinely includes …”			“Thinking about the last 12 months, when you received care for your diabetes from a doctor or nurse…”
Advising about increasing exercise	99.6	33.4	Were you given advice about doingmore exercise to manage your weight?	54.4	−0.20
Advising about calorie restriction	85.7	15.9	Were you given advice about eatingless to manage your weight?	57.1	−0.21**
Providing a printed leaflet	64.2	16.1	Were you given written information(e.g. a leaflet) about managing yourweight	45.3	0.03
Referral to a dietician	62.3	8.4	Were you asked to see a dietician todiscuss managing your weight?	31.3	0.27**
Prescribing exercise	56.7	2.2	–
Referral to the practice nurse	48.2	17.3	–
Suggesting a commercial weight loss organisation	45.4	1.9	Was it suggested to you to attend aweight loss organisation?	15.2	0.05
Suggesting a commercial gym/exercise organisation	39.4	0.2	–
Other	27.4	4.6	–

^#Correlation is with proportion of people responding and BMI>30.

^##Question stem “If pressed for time which ONE would you do?”; figure is % endorsing that response.

^**p<0.01.