Archive
Topic: Government
Suffer the fat little children
Author: Tam Fry
2015, Vol 1, No 1, Pages 32-33
An extension of the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP), one of the key initiatives in the current battle to bring childhood obesity in the UK under control, has been deemed by a recent House of Commons Health Select Committee report as being an issue not worthy of consideration by May’s incoming administration (House of Commons, 2015). Seemingly against the advice of its Chair, and former GP, Sarah Wollaston, who very publicly called for such a move last year (Chorley, 2014), the opportunity to make a real advance in the battle has been lost.
