Carly Hughes MBBS, MSc

Dr Hughes undertook her BA at Cambridge where she studied at the Dunn Nutrition unit. She qualified with an MBBS from the Royal London hospital, and later undertook an MSc in Health Science at the University of East Anglia (UEA). She has been a GP partner in Norfolk for 21 years, and over the last 10 years has developed her interest and skills in managing Obesity with the aid of the SCOPE programme.

Her team developed an in-house weight management programme based on the NICE guidelines which won the overall NoF excellence award in weight management 2010. In conjunction with Norfolk public health and North Norfolk CCG they were awarded an NHS Innovation fund grant and developed a Tier 3 multidisciplinary weight management programme for North Norfolk. This programme offers multi-component interventions with 2 GP’s with bariatric training, obesity specialist nurses, dietician, psychologist, exercise professional, health trainer and onsite gym.