June 30th 2025

By Ailsa Colquhoun

DDA updates excess weight training

This training, available free and exclusively to DDA members, is designed to provide practice dispensary staff with background information on excess weight, and the support you can offer patients to help them reduce their weight and improve their health. 

Throughout the training, you will find various activities to help reinforce your learning. Ten, multiple choice questions at the end will help you identify any areas needing a quick recap.

By the end of this training you will:

• Appreciate the scale of the issue
• Understand the impact of being overweight or obese on the health of individuals and society in general
• Know how to calculate healthy weight of children and adults
• Be able to advise on behaviour to lose weight and the available pharmacological and surgical options 
• Know which patients are eligible for tirzepatide (Mounjaro)

DDA members can download the free training and certficate of completion in the DDA online library of Dispenser Education Modules.