Changing demographics, not obesity, is the real crisis for the NHS
27 January 2019
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Amy Horscroft writes for City AM
25 January 2019
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Christopher Snowdon comments in the Sunday Mirror
27 January 2019
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Christopher Snowdon comments in the Daily Express
The IEA’s Head of Lifestyle Economics Christopher Snowdon has commented in the Daily Express about the cost of obesity to the NHS.
“We heard all this stuff about smoking a couple of years ago and people say ‘oh smoking costs the NHS’. It doesn’t – for the same reason, obesity doesn’t cost the NHS and governments, in particular, a great deal of money because there are a lot of savings that go along with the costs.
“The real crisis the NHS is facing is the ageing population.”
Read the full article here.
“We heard all this stuff about smoking a couple of years ago and people say ‘oh smoking costs the NHS’. It doesn’t – for the same reason, obesity doesn’t cost the NHS and governments, in particular, a great deal of money because there are a lot of savings that go along with the costs.
“The real crisis the NHS is facing is the ageing population.”
Read the full article here.
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