My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The big change we need to see in the NHS over this Parliament is a move from a focus on cure to a focus on prevention. In this Parliament, we will probably see the biggest single public health challenge change from smoking to obesity. It is still a national scandal that one in five 11-year-olds is clinically obese, and I think we need to do something significant to tackle that in this Parliament.
Health and Social Care
Proceeding contribution from
Jeremy Hunt
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 2 June 2015.
It occurred during Queen's speech debate on Health and Social Care.
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