The Department of Health also promised that the delivery plan for the implementation of the white paper, Choosing Health: Making Healthier Choices, would be available "early" in 2005. With regard to children's issues it is urgent but unlikely to be published before April and probably much later.
Childhood obesity is one of the most pressing paediatric problems of the day and the Treasury has told the Department of Health to sort it out by 2010. But it hasn't got a cat's chance if it doesn't start soon.
Indeed, if the department was serious about children, it could have been working hard at obesity since 2001. This was the year when it was told by the National Audit Office to get cracking.
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