Whichever newspaper you read or news channel you tune into, there’s a fair chance that it will at some time have featured a forthright word or two from the respected National Obesity Forum [NOF] on the government’s inaction over obesity. Forum members, like you, witness the ravages of excess weight daily in their surgeries and clinics with a growing sense of frustration. But, how does the NOF get its position covered?

The Journal of General Practice Nursing asked Tam Fry, for 12 years the Forum’s spokesman, to explain.