OHA NEWS & BLOG
Healthy Early Years Diets: Achieving the Best Start in Life
The Obesity Health Alliance has a new joint position statement (together with First Steps Nutrition Trust), ‘Healthy Early Years Diets: Achieving the Best Start in Life’ which outlines the next steps the government can take, to create healthier...
Holding us back: tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food and drink
More needs to be done to tackle the unhealthy products driving nearly half a million people out of work. Our new Holding Us Back report released by a coalition of health charities has laid bare the £31bn productivity cost to the economy from...
Recipe for Change – Time for a new industry levy
Recipe for Change is a campaign calling for a new industry levy to help make our food healthier, while raising revenue that can be invested back into children’s health. Recipe for Change is coalition of organisations led by Sustain, The Food...
OHA Responds to the National Child Measurement Programme 2022-23
NHS Digital has presented findings from the Government's National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) for England, 2022/23 school year. It covers children in Reception (aged 4-5 years) and Year 6 (aged 10-11 years) in mainstream state-maintained...
Five Key Learnings from the OHA’s Manifesto Process
Following the publication of the Obesity Health Alliance’s Manifesto for the next General Election, our Government Affairs Lead, Alfie Slade, reflects on the process and what learnings we can share with our members. What's the point of a manifesto?...