Memorandum of Understanding between the British Dietetic Association and the British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society

Its vision is to; “Improve the health of the UK population; by protecting and improving health and care services; developing health and social care nutrition policy; improving the impact of dietetics; and, promoting positive discussion on food, nutrition, wellbeing, and health.” Its aims are to: • advance the science and practice of dietetics and associated subjects; • promote training and educati. [...] • To define and act as the main advisory body in relation to service structure and professional issues in bariatric surgery and associated clinical care in the UK. [...] • Serve to inform the respective members and stakeholders of the BDA and BOMSS of our relationship and how we will collaborate. [...] As a result of the memorandum the BDA and BOMSS will: • Work together to raise awareness of BOMSS amongst the BDA membership, and vice- versa. [...] Through the course of the co-operation, the BDA and BOMSS may, from time to time, be sharing commercially confidential information with each other to the extent that this is necessary for the preparation of specified joint projects.