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The Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum was previously The Westminster Diet and Health Forum.<ref> [http://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/forums/index.php?fid=westminster_food_and_nutrition_forum The Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum], accessed 23 September 2010. </ref>
  
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:The Westminster Diet and Health Forum aims to provide the premier environment where parliamentarians, senior policy advisors, regulators and other decision makers can discuss critical issues, and exchange ideas and information with leaders from industry, responsible interest groups, analysts, academics, journalists and others.
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According to its website, it aims to provide the premier environment for policy makers in Parliament, Whitehall and government agencies to engage with key stakeholders. These include nutrition professionals, industry representatives and their advisors, interest groups, NHS bodies and private care providers, education professionals, local authorities, the voluntary sector and academia, along with members of the reporting press. <ref> This has changed from 'where parliamentarians, senior policy advisors, regulators and other decision makers can discuss critical issues, and exchange ideas and information with leaders from industry, responsible interest groups, analysts, academics, journalists and others.'</ref>
  
 
:The Forum strives to be as inclusive, encompassing and relevant as possible. One aspect of this is a standard practice of all sessions including comments and questions from the floor. Another is flexibility in the planning of events to enable current and newly emerging issues to be reflected.
 
:The Forum strives to be as inclusive, encompassing and relevant as possible. One aspect of this is a standard practice of all sessions including comments and questions from the floor. Another is flexibility in the planning of events to enable current and newly emerging issues to be reflected.

Revision as of 16:23, 23 September 2010

The Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum was previously The Westminster Diet and Health Forum.[1]

According to its website, it aims to provide the premier environment for policy makers in Parliament, Whitehall and government agencies to engage with key stakeholders. These include nutrition professionals, industry representatives and their advisors, interest groups, NHS bodies and private care providers, education professionals, local authorities, the voluntary sector and academia, along with members of the reporting press. [2]

The Forum strives to be as inclusive, encompassing and relevant as possible. One aspect of this is a standard practice of all sessions including comments and questions from the floor. Another is flexibility in the planning of events to enable current and newly emerging issues to be reflected.
In planning its programme of events the Forum consults parliamentarians, senior departmental officials, regulators, industry representatives and major interest groups. The WD&HF has no policy agenda of its own.

The Forum a project of Westminster Forum Projects, a UK Limited Company (Company number: 3856121).


Events

In February 2009, the forum is running a seminar on "Childhood obesity and Responsibility: the next step for policy". The seminar will discuss the "latest thinking on policy to address childhood obesity in the UK, the initial focus for the Government’s ambitious Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives strategy. Delegates will also discuss progress so far in the Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives initiative, and latest statistical indicators on the scale of the problem".[3] The seminar comes just after the main events of the Government's Change4Life initiative come on stream.[4]

Among the confirmed speakers at the seminar are Baroness Peta Buscombe who when chief executive of the Advertising Association was closely involved in the formation of Business4Life the business coalition partner to the Change4Life initiative. Sandra GidleyMP liberal Democrat spokesperon on health and member of the Pharmacy All Party Parliamentary Groupand the Associate Parliamentary Health Group.


People

Patrons

Publications

The forum publishes the papers and reports discussed at its seminars. These publications use a similar style to that of official Westminster publications in the use of the portcullis symbol and plain buff/yellow covers. [5] [6]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum, accessed 23 September 2010.
  2. ↑ This has changed from 'where parliamentarians, senior policy advisors, regulators and other decision makers can discuss critical issues, and exchange ideas and information with leaders from industry, responsible interest groups, analysts, academics, journalists and others.'
  3. ↑ Westminster Diet and Health Forum Planned events,Accessed December 18 2008
  4. ↑ Mark Sweney, Government unveils details of £275m anti-obesity pushThe Guardian, November 11 2008, Accessed December 18 2008
  5. ↑ Books by ISBN Nutrition and school age children, Accessed December 18 2008
  6. ↑ Books by ISBN Health Inequalities:Implementing the Choosing a Better Diet action plan, Accessed December 18 2008
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