It reveals that the cost of inactivity to each PCT is 5m a year.
Launched by public health minister Dawn Primarolo it also advocates free swimming and a dance working group to harness a ‘Strictly Come Dancing fever that has swept the nation’.
2,012 walking routes across England are to be unveiled in the run up to the London Olympics and a Physical Activity Alliance will pool the resources of the voluntary and Read more »
They show that 21.4 million was spent on reinforced beds, 11 million on specialist operating tables, 7.4 million on specialist ambulances and 2.2 million on reinforced trolleys.
Conservative shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley said: ‘Labour has shown such complacency when it comes to tackling Britain’s ticking obesity timebomb.
‘Labour’s record has been one of obesity targets missed and scrapped, Read more »
The union is urging the DoH to double the workforce by immediately recruiting an extra 2,000 qualified school nurses.
The advice follows the data from the child measurement programme showing that one in five children aged 10-11 are obese.
There are more than 3,300 secondary schools in England, and the DoH has pledged to have a school nurse to cover each of these and their surrounding clusters of primary schools by 2010.
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