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OBESITY
Making the healthy choice easy
By Ansaf Azhar | 08 August 2023
Oxfordshire has developed a four-pillared approach to creating a county that makes it easier for people to maintain a healthy weight and be active, says Ansaf Azhar.
HEALTH
The importance of the local
By Professor Jim McManus | 31 July 2023
The local levers to achieve preventative change have often been badly understood by Governments a...
HEALTH
The drugs won't work
By Professor Jim McManus | 13 June 2023
Short-term strategies like the latest drugs pilot to tackle obesity won’t fix the problem, says P...
HEALTH
Council leaders blast Government over 'sugar levy'
By William Eichler | 12 August 2022
Council leaders have urged the Government to stick to its pledge to reinvest money raised from th...
HEALTH
Council leaders criticise food strategy as 'missed opportunity'
By William Eichler | 14 June 2022
Local authority leaders have criticised the Government’s new food strategy as a 'missed opportuni...
HEALTH
How councils keep public health top of the agenda
By Professor Jim McManus | 25 May 2022
It’s 175 years since England’s first municipal public health official was appointed, so how are l...
HEALTH
HMJ: AI set to be used to tackle obesity across Leicester
15 March 2022
Leicester City Council will be using artificial intelligence to develop personalised weight loss ...
PUBLIC HEALTH
Councils should be at the centre of a renewed push on public health
By Cllr Sir Ray Puddifoot | 07 September 2020
Councils must be at the heart of a new, reinvigorated national push on improving public health pr...
LEISURE
Leisure centre closures threaten the drive to boost the nation's health
By Michael Burton | 10 June 2020
Health secretary Matt Hancock does not want to be in the awkward position of calling on better pr...
PUBLIC HEALTH
By investing in parks society will reap long-term rewards
By Paul O’Brien | 09 June 2020
Over the past few months many have turned to parks as their daily release from the pressures of l...
PUBLIC HEALTH
Taking the initiative together to tackle unhealthy weight
By Cllr Sarah Addenbrooke | 28 January 2020
Kensington & Chelsea RLBC’s Go Golborne initiative has stopped the rise in childhood obesity in t...
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