New plans from the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) hone in on diabetes and the over 40’s – urging doctors to put millions on strict diets and offer “intensive lifestyle change programmes.”
Claiming every person over 40 should have an NHS diabetes check, the plans follow news that almost five million people in the UK have diabetes, which “is threatening to bankrupt the NHS” said Tam Fry, from the National Obesity Forum.