NHS chief urges hospital staff to join gyms in anti-obesity fight Simon Stevens says repeated warnings have been ignored and we must lead national effort to tackle crisis.
The National Health Service is to put its own 1.35 million staff at the head of a new fight against obesity by encouraging them to join weight-watching groups and take out gym memberships, its new head will announce this week.
The move by Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, comes amid mounting frustration within the medical profession and NHS over the failure of successive governments to invest sufficiently in public health campaigns. Continue reading... The Guardian
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