So what is Jeremy Hunt doing about it? Obesity was a factor in more than 525,000 hospital admissions last year, and obesity rates have risen from 15% in 1993 to 27% in 2015. Child health experts describe the level of childhood obesity in the United Kingdom as a “state of emergency”. As a GP with over 30 years’ experience, I can state that the vast majority of consultations are for conditions such as diabetes and heart disease – linked to lifestyle or diet. I would estimate that 50-70% of costs to the NHS would be not just reduced but eliminated if patients’ diet and exercise regimes […]
Read More
Blog
- Access to treatment
- Accountability
- Addiction
- Aids
- Austerity
- BAME
- Blogging & websites
- BMA
- Book Review
- Brexit
- Campaign resources
- Campaigns
- Care Sector
- Carers
- Cheshire
- Children
- Clinical conditions
- Competition and markets
- Complementary and Alternative medicine
- Conservatives
- Cosmetic
- COVID-19
- Dementia
- Democracy
- Dentistry
- Devolution
- Disability
- Discrimination
- Doctors
- Doctors In Unite
- Domestic Abuse
- DONHS
- Economics of healthcare
- Education
- Election
- End of life
- Environmental health
- Equality
- European Union
- Exercise & travel
- FBU
- Fertility
- Food
- Funding
- HCT
- Health and Social Care Act 2012
- Health Care
- Health Inequalities
- Health Law
- HIV
- Housing
- Immunisation
- Information Technology
- International comparisons
- International Trade
- Ireland
- KONP
- Labour Health Policy
- Labour Party
- LGBT
- Liberal Democrats
- Liverpool
- Local Government
- London
- Manchester
- Maternity
- Medication
- Mental Health
- Migration
- Mortality
- NHS
- NHS Commissioning
- NHS Funding
- NHS history
- NHS Hospitals
- NHS Management
- NHS reorganisation
- North East
- Nursing
- Obesity
- Old people
- Oxfordshire
- Paramedics
- Patient Choice
- Pay Freeze
- PFI
- Pharma
- Poverty in the UK
- Primary Care
- Private Medicine
- Privatisation
- Professional opinion
- Public and Patient Involvement
- Public Health
- Quality of care
- Rationing treatment
- Regulation
- Research
- Science
- Scotland
- SHA Yorkshire
- SHABlog
- Sheffield
- Social Care
- Social Enterprise
- Social Security
- Socialism
- Socialist Health Association
- Staffing
- Substance abuse
- Surgery
- Teachers
- Technology
- Unison
- Unite the Union
- United Kingdom Independence Party
- Urgent Care
- Vaccination
- Wales
- War
- Well-being
- West Midlands
- Wirral
- Women
- Work and health
Search
Tag Archives: Childhood Obesity
The biggest changes come from incremental steps not silver bullets In the same week that the new mayor of London began the task of watering down his electoral promises the Government published its long-awaited “Plan for Action” for childhood obesity. The anti-obesity lobby attacked it because it lacked some of their favourite state interventions. David Cameron’s biggest flaw as a politician was to promise actions for which he had either little knowledge as to their impact or little inclination to worry about these future problems. Even before he became Conservative Leader he showed this tendency when he promised the Eurosceptics that […]
Read More
Just under one in ten children in England are obese by the time they begin primary school. The same NHS figures which highlight this statistic (9.1 per cent) among reception age pupils also pinpoints a stark rise in the issue by the end of primary school. By the time 11-year-olds are ready to move on to secondary school, 19.1 per cent are classed as obese and about a third – 33.2 per cent – are either overweight or obese. Those figures are clearly a cause for concern. As Public Health England notes, these children are also more likely to miss […]
Read More
Create A Cabinet Minister For Children To Address National Child Obesity Epidemic! The All-Party Parliamentary Group on a Fit and Healthy Childhood claims that without a strategic, co-ordinated approach, the country will be faced with a child obesity epidemic of ‘ intractable and devastating effect ’ and has called for a new post of Cabinet Minister for Children to drive policy to promote child health and fitness across all Government Departments. In a report based upon contributions from 23 cross-sector organisations, The All Party Parliamentary Group on A Fit and Healthy Childhood has made detailed recommendations to address a current crisis […]
Read More
