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Government pledges extra money to improve school lunches
Schools given extra £240m for healthy lunches

Schools will get an additional £240 million to help them cook with healthy ingredients as part of a drive to cut childhood obesity, the education secretary has announced. Alan Johnson said the money would add to the £220 million already pledged to schools and councils to support new food guidelines, which come into effect this… Read more »

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Age Concern warns NHS is failing to tackle malnutrition
NHS hospitals ‘failing to tackle malnutrition’

Hundreds of thousands of older people are suffering from malnutrition in hospitals – partly because nurses do not have the time to help them eat, a new report warns. Research by charity Age Concern finds that four out of ten people aged over 65 admitted to hospital are malnourished, but the condition of many of… Read more »