Join us for our next webinar on Wednesday 2nd April 2025, 19:00-20:00 as we dive into how digital innovation can help the NHS to deliver weight management services presented by Dr Laura Falvey, who will share what 'Digital' weight management actually means, the opportunities and limitation of digital services and the role of them in the context of obesity care, and what the future of digital weight management looks like.
Webinar objectives:
- Gain insights into the latest advancements in weight management care and their implementation.
- Learn about the opportunities in commissioning new patient pathways for innovative treatments.
- Understand how Digital clinical solutions can enhance service delivery and patient outcomes.
This presentation will be followed by a Q+A session chaired by Dr Jonathan Hazlehurst.
Dr Laura Falvey
Dr. Laura Falvey is the Executive Clinical Director at Reset Health, leading Roczen, a digital weight management service that integrates into NHS pathways. She oversees the multidisciplinary clinical service, ensuring high standards of clinical governance and patient-centred care, and the executive functions of clinical product development and commercial stakeholder engagement.
Laura has led Roczen to achieve key milestones, including NICE-recommendation in draft guidance, NHS partnerships, regulatory accreditations and impactful collaborations with international public and private healthcare organisations such as Affidea. She is actively involved in digital health research, including an NIHR-funded study across South London (RENEW), and is committed to advancing high-quality, clinically governed digital weight management services that support the NHS in delivering sustainable, scalable, and effective care. Laura is an advocate for patients living with obesity, promoting co-development and patient engagement throughout service design.
Laura trained at Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ Medical School at King's and, prior to joining Reset Health, worked across the NHS in a variety of medical, surgical, and primary care settings.
Dr Jonathan Hazlehurst
Consultant Endocrinologist at University Hospitals Birmingham and Clinical Lead for Weight Management
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.