Combating UK obesity crisis should be your 'personal mission', MPs tell Burnham

Combating UK obesity crisis should be your 'personal mission', MPs tell Burnham

The Commons Health and Social Care Committee said that it has ‘no faith’ ministers will deliver on the plans to combat obesity in the UK

Prime minister should make tackling obesity a personal mission, MPs say

Ministers have called on the prime minister to tackle obesity, claiming the government won’t meet its target to end the epidemic in England.  The Health and Social Care Committee said it had ‘no faith’ in the government’s plans to achieve the goal, which was set out in the 10 Year…

Health and Social Care Select Committee Parliamentary Inquiry on the Obesity "Moonshot": OHA Responds

The Obesity Health Alliance (OHA) has welcomed the Health and Social Care Committee’s latest report, which calls on the Government to turn its obesity “moonshot” ambition into a clear, credible and deliverable plan.  The report scrutinises the Government’s commitment in the 10 Year Health Plan for England to “end the obesity epidemic” and concludes that […]

UK government’s obesity plan ‘doomed to fail’, MPs warn – Net News 1

Cross-party committee says ‘moonshot’ vow to end obesity epidemic in a decade will fail without personal leadership from PM The…

UK government’s obesity plan ‘doomed to fail’, MPs warn

Cross-party committee says ‘moonshot’ vow to end obesity epidemic in a decade will fail without personal leadership from PM The UK government’s promise to reverse rising obesity rates in the next decade is “doomed to fail” without a major rethink and a new plan led directly by the prime minister, a cross-party committee of MPs…

Combating UK obesity crisis should be your ‘personal mission’, MPs tell Burnham

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in MPs have told Prime Minister Andy Burnham to make combating Britain’s obesity crisis a “clear personal mission”. It comes as MPs criticised government plans to “launch a moonshot” to tackle the crisis, saying they “lack detail”. The Commons Health and Social Care Committee expressed that i…