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26th September 2016
Sarah Price, Chief Officer at NHS Haringey CCG, writes about why she wants Healthy Living Week to be the beginning of better workplace health in the NHS. We’re really excited about Healthy Living Week in my CCG. We’ve got lots of fun activities and events planned during the week for our staff — and our hope is that we […]
21st September 2016
Jemma Gilbert, Head of Healthy London Partnership’s Prevention Programme, explains the biggest challenges to reducing childhood obesity and the need to galvanize Londoners to bring about change.
21st September 2016
London has a big problem. Levels of childhood obesity in London are unacceptably high. This can have serious complications later in life such as diabetes, heart disease & higher risk of premature mortality, shockingly however we are now seeing such problems in young adults too. We cannot continue to have almost one-in-four children being overweight […]
21st September 2016
An obesity pandemic, with London at the top of the obesity league table of global cities The world is hitting the peak of a truly global epidemic of obesity … and that makes it a pandemic. Most people don’t think of it that way, because unlike swine flu, the obesity pandemic is taking years to […]
21st September 2016
We’re not great at blowing our own trumpets in the public sector, so I’m going to use this blog as an opportunity to blow others’ and tell you about some really brilliant work that is going on in Haringey, much of it led by my colleagues in public health. Haringey is not unique in its […]
5th September 2016
More than 100 organisations, including CCGs, hospitals and providers, have signed up to take part in Healthy Living Week 2017 which runs between 25 and 29 September. Activities and events they are organising for staff include mental health resilience talks, mindfulness sessions, lunchtime walks and yoga classes. For those short of time to plan activities, we’ve made it even […]
27th July 2016
More than 120 Londoners took part in London’s first Great Weight Debate event in May. Watch what they had to say.
19th May 2016
London children tell us what being healthy means to them FILM: As part of the Great Weight Debate we asked London children what being healthy means to them
19th May 2016
FILM: Watch children in London talk about what ‘being healthy’ means to them
19th May 2016
FILM: As part of the Great Weight Debate we asked London children whether they found it easy to be health in the capital
