Chair of the Health Committee, Dr Sarah Wollaston MP, said: "We are extremely disappointed that the government has rejected a number of our recommendations.
Solutions are being sought by the Welsh Government that reduce the levels of salt, sugar and saturated fats, as well as improve the nutritional value of food and drink for children.
Sharon Hodgson MP, shadow minister, will co-chair the event with Dr Philippa Whitford, SNP’s spokesperson for health.
The report criticises ‘a subset of hospitals that perform poorly in almost every measure’, notes that most do so in some areas, and puts much of the blame on the lack of legal standards for hospita
Looking ahead to the launch of the Sugar Reduction Programme by Public Health England (PHE), Tim Rycroft, corporate affairs director at the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) said: “We have said consi
The researchers from Sweden discovered that overweight men were nearly 50% more likely and obese men more than twice as likely to develop liver disease in later life than men of normal weight.
At the start of the day, guests were given a pair of glasses to replicate visual impairments common among elderly people and welcomed into a drab dining room.
HCA chair Phil Shelley, and Food for Life director James Cashmore, signed the agreement as part of the HCA’s commitment to working with other trade organisations.
This introduction of this support follows on from the roll out of the company’s Dignified Dining toolkit last year with the Alzheimer’s Society, which aimed to provide patients with tailored nutrit
The research of 2,000 people aged between 30 and 71 with elderly parents, conducted by apetito and OnePoll, discovered 79% said their parents had not discussed malnutrition with their GP.