Around 700,000 NHS staff members, including mostly, Midwives, health visitors and nurses have been told to lose weight and shed the excess pounds. Ministers are extremely unhappy that NHS staff that are involved in running weight loss programmes are themselves obese.
The report which was released by the Department of Health, states that ‘Of the 1.2 million staff in the NHS, it is likely that around 300,000 would be classified as obese and a further 400,000 as overweight.’
The report goes on to say that NHS staff should be leading by example and focuses on nurses, midwives and health visitors as the main culprits of being overweight.
Somehow, I don’t think this latest relese from the Department of Health will go down too well with many, especially when MP’s have an expanding waistline themselves. Also with the latest scandal hitting the newspapers headlines about Ministers and their expenses. Still, no-one likes to be given advice or told to lose weight from an overweight Nurse or Health Visitor.
Have you ever been told to lose weight from someone heavier then yourself? How did you feel? We’d love to hear your comments on this story, as usual.
