The county council is expanding its health and wellbeing programmes for children and families. This is to help tackle childhood obesity and support children in Hampshire to get active and stay healthy ...

It comes as the NHS has initiated the rollout of weight loss jabs for ... Asked specifically about the National Childhood Measurement Programme, which measures the level of obesity in children using ...

But now experts suggest the simple mantra may be fuelling the UK's obesity crisis by encouraging kids to eat too much. NHS data shows almost one in 10 children joining primary school are obese ...

They include 14,010 children and teenagers under 18 – up from 4,655 a decade before. The NHS England figures cover all patients with a diagnosis of obesity. This means patients’ excess weight ...

Councils need more support from central government to help bring down childhood obesity rates, a local authority has said.

The number of children who must share playgrounds well beyond their capacity has been described as a ‘postcode lottery’.

Prof Baur said: “The two children may have the same ... who are overweight or living with obesity. “NICE independently assesses the evidence and NHS England follows the guidance as published.” ...

ANOTHER year, another promise that the NHS is being radically reformed to ... first place — and that means ­tackling the causes of obesity, drink and drug addictions and the downward spiral ...

It comes as the NHS has initiated the rollout of weight ... which measures the level of obesity in children using their height and weight to calculate their BMI score, Professor Louise Baur ...

So, how should we feel about the news that Guy’s hospital is one of the first in the country to prescribe weight-loss jabs on the NHS? Pleased ... to the problem of obesity?