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Obesity continues to rise
Obesity in England increased from 15 per cent in 1993 to 26 per cent in 2014, according to new figures.
The Health and Social Care Information Centre’s latest report ‘Statistics on Obesity, Physical Activity and Diet’ reveals that, in 2014, 58 per cent of women and 65 per cent of men were overweight or obese.
In the same period, more than one in five children in reception classes, and one in three children in year 6 were measured as obese or overweight.
The statistics also revealed there were 6,032 Finished Consultant Episodes (FCEs) in NHS hospitals with a primary diagnosis of obesity and a main or secondary procedure of bariatric surgery. Sixty per cent of these patients were aged between 35 and 54 and 76 per cent were female.
In 2014, 519,000 items were prescribed for the treatment of obesity in primary care in England. That is eight per cent less than in 2013 when 563,000 items were prescribed. The net ingredient cost (NIC) of these prescription items was £15m in 2014, half the 2011 figure.
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