Medical leaders write to PM calling for “decisive action” against obesity and health inequalities

The government’s plans for tackling obesity must be part of a wider strategy to reduce health inequalities that have widened further since the covid-19 pandemic, medical royal colleges have told the prime minister.

In a letter to Boris Johnson, shared with The BMJ, the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Child and Paediatric Health, and the Royal College of General Practitioners said that anything less …