The organisation also called on family doctors to proactively discuss weight management with patients.
But the Royal College of General Practitioners' honorary treasurer, Dr Helen saides-LamProactively "Proactively discussing sexual health with every patient before they go on holiday is not the best use of scarce resources in general practice and risks causing embarrassment to many patients".
The forum called for GPs to proactively discuss weight management with patients, and routinely measure children's height and weight and adults' waist size, it added.
Last month, the NOF said estimates that half the UK population would be obese by 2050 "underestimated" the problem and called for GPs to proactively discuss weight management with patients, and routinely measure children's height and weight and adults' waist size.
"We are proactively discussing new policies and procedures with all of our partners going forward". .
The advent of screening initiatives provides the opportunity to proactively discuss with parents the weight status of their child.
To explore GP's capabilities, motivations and opportunities for discussing self-harm and to identify barriers to and enablers for proactively discussing self-harm with young people.
The aim of the research was to identify barriers to, and enablers for, GP's proactively discussing self-harm with young people.
It is within their capacity to proactively discuss the issue of smoking with patients as it is linked to improved general health.
Because of the serious consequences of "misinformed choice," counseling should proactively discuss the most effective methods long-acting reversible contraceptives and permethods long-actingg the WHO tiereversibleiveness model.
