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BRADFORD Council leader Susan Hinchcliffe has urged the Government to provide stronger support amid fears the Indian variant of Covid-19 could have a “devastating” impact on the district if it spreads. She has written to Health Secretary Matt Hancock calling for him to support locally-led plans to tackle the virus - and to reduce the risk of future lockdowns. The district has been under restrictions for far longer than many other places in the country. Cllr Hinchcliffe has called for the supply of more vaccines to the Bradford district, coupled with greater flexibility to use them, to prevent a “crisis”.
Study highlights the need for more personalized approach to measuring BMI
The results of an extensive new study funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR),
Ethnic-specific BMI cut-off points for obesity based on type 2 diabetes mellitus risk: a cohort study of 1.5 million people in England, presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO) and published simultaneously in the leading journal, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology reveal that inaccurate and outdated interpretations of the standard Body Mass Index (BMI) values for patients from BAME backgrounds in England could potentially be putting their health at risk.
Researchers from four leading institutions [the University of Warwick, the University of Oxford, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and UCL Institute of Health Informatics] came together in partnership with the Ethnic Health Forum to publish the pioneering study, analyzing data from over 1 million BAME people from England us
Rhys Clyne: Central and local government relationships need urgent repair
17 May 2021
Poor relations between Whitehall and town halls weakened the UK’s response to the pandemic, says the senior researcher at the Institute for Government.
To coincide with the anniversary of the first national lockdown, the Institute for Government published a report setting out 10 lessons to learn from the response of UK government – at all levels – to the pandemic. We based our recommendations on a series of interviews with politicians and officials from local, devolved and central government, asking them to reflect on what they had learned in the past 12 months about the strengths and weaknesses of the British state.