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Unfit care staff can help lose weight thanks to a new mobile phone app being trialled at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.
Overweight nurses, doctors and other hospital workers in Gloucestershire are being encouraged to slim down as they go about their daily duties.
The new StepJockey app will help staff monitor how far they walk during their shift and comes in the wake of new guidance from NHS chief executive Simon Stevens.
He has called for incentives to be offered to 700,000 of the 1.3 million workers within the NHS who are overweight.
Mr Stevens has also suggested NHS sites should have more gyms and become ‘cycle friendly’ to tackle obesity.
http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/...ospital-help/story-22060861-detail/story.html
Overweight nurses, doctors and other hospital workers in Gloucestershire are being encouraged to slim down as they go about their daily duties.
The new StepJockey app will help staff monitor how far they walk during their shift and comes in the wake of new guidance from NHS chief executive Simon Stevens.
He has called for incentives to be offered to 700,000 of the 1.3 million workers within the NHS who are overweight.
Mr Stevens has also suggested NHS sites should have more gyms and become ‘cycle friendly’ to tackle obesity.
http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/...ospital-help/story-22060861-detail/story.html