Dr. Jonathan Hazlehurst
Heartlands, Birmingham
Dr Jonathan Hazlehurst runs the large specialist weight management service at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital. He is also a clinical academic at the University of Birmingham. He studied medicine and a DPhil at the University of Oxford. academic interests include clinical trials as well as mapping work to improve access to obesity services and a wide range of academic and commercial studies. He speaks and publishes widely in these areas. More recently he is part of several NIHR funded studies looking at long term outcomes of thyrotoxicosis treatment, prediction models for type 2 diabetes remission following bariatric surgery and an OLS i4i grant looking at digital provision of weight management services. He works closely with his ICB to try to turn NICE guidance and technology appraisals into clinical reality for patients and understands the full challenge in this area as well as the potential opportunities and pitfalls associated with digital services. He is a passionate advocate for patient first language and is proud to provide ongoing support for patient advocates as part of ECPO as well as training and support colleagues in obesity.