Hunt omitted children’s health from his formal speech at the National Children and Adult Services Conference, but gave some of his views on the subject when prompted by delegates during a question and answers session.
As well as confirming his commitment to the children and young people's health outcomes strategy, launched by his predecessor, Hunt said care for disabled children and obesity were priorities.
“Three of my four priority areas directly involve getting better outcomes for children, things like improving survival rates for the major killer diseases and integrated care that is vital for parents who have disabled children,” said Hunt.
“And children are some of the biggest losers when, for example, our failure to control the obesity epidemic [means we] now we have a third of 11-year-olds who are overweight or obese leading directly to much higher levels of conditions like diabetes.”
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