Clinic for town’s obese slammed as ‘heavy burden on the taxpayer’
Apr 13 2011
AN obesity clinic set up to tackle a Yorkshire town’s spiralling weight problem has been branded “ridiculous” after every pound lost by patients cost the taxpayer almost £60.
Figures obtained by the Yorkshire Post show the Rotherham Institute of Obesity (RIO) spent £775,500 treating 1,600 overweight adults and 200 children in the past 18 months. To read more click here.
