Box 10.

The potential impact of general practice.

“As a health care professional, what you think is that if somebody has got a problem, you have to deal with it and you need to see a very good outcome, so for me, as a GP what makes me happy is – he had a problem, diabetes, diagnose it, start treatment, got better! that’s the outcome. You have got obese child, you’ve got nothing to do with it, it’s parents’ jobs – you can’t prescribe anything, you can’t tell them anything and for me, the outcome is frustration – nothing else.” Practice ID 16, GP “My concern about obesity in general practice is it seems to imply that the solution in obesity is in general practice. And it is absolutely clear that the solution is nowhere near general practice. The solution to obesity is in public health; nothing to do with general practice.” Practice ID 25, GP