Obesity
Responding to today’s announcement that the GMC is seeking views on a revised version of Good medical practice, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said that it will be scrutinising the significant changes being proposed. The MDU, the UK’s leading medical defence organisation, explained that regulations must be compatible with the realities of doctors’ working lives and… Read more »
BASC, the UK’s largest shooting and conservation organisation, has expelled for life a member convicted of wildlife crime and firearms offences. Expulsion from BASC involves the loss of shooting insurance, on which the ability to shoot may depend, and other benefits of membership. The member from Nottinghamshire pleaded guilty to unlawfully trapping and beating to… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff Parents who consistently fail to address their child’s obesity should be prepared for child protection officers to step in, medical experts have argued. Writing in the British Medical Journal, a group of childcare experts said that while it would be difficult to argue that obesity itself warrants child protection, those parents who… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff The government stood accused of abandoning the public health argument as Andrew Lansley outlined a “non-regulatory approach” to junk food. The health secretary told a public health conference yesterday that the government would seek to limit regulation of unhealthy food in return for private sector backing of its public health schemes. It… Read more »
