EXCLUSIVE: With overweight and obesity said to be the second biggest cause of cancer in the UK, NHS GP Dr Hilary Jones shared ...

On Tuesday, NHS doctors were told to use these extra metrics to diagnose obesity, in new guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice). They had already been told to ...

The NHS is asking millions of people to act now in order to "live better" with type 2 diabetes. The condition is thought to affect millions of people in the UK, with an estimated 1.3 million people ...

This commission has been trying to deal with a more accurate way of diagnosing and classifying obesity in the first place. 'No system - the NHS or others - have had these methods yet - I think ...

“This commission has been trying to deal with a more accurate way of diagnosing and classifying obesity in the first place.” He went on: “No system – the NHS or others – have had these ...

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There are precedents for a hybrid NHS-private model of healthcare. Ten years ago, a new drug treatment arrived that could cure the hepatitis C infection. The NHS couldn’t afford to give it to everyone ...

This commission has been trying to deal with a more accurate way of diagnosing and classifying obesity in the first place. 'No system - the NHS or others - have had these methods yet - I think ...

Prof Naveed Sattar, who leads the UK government's Obesity Healthcare Goals programme, says if everyone eligible was given the drug right away "it would simply bankrupt the NHS". Being overweight ...

The current costs of obesity in the UK are £6.1 billion to the NHS and £27 billion to wider society, according to government figures. Some other experts are keen to rein in expectations about ...