Amanda Ursell

  • Foodservice Footprint Unknown-20 Trick or treat: how the obesity plan changed Out of Home News Analysis  Theresa May Susan Jebb Public Health Responsibility Deal news-email Jamie Oliver Footprint Forum Fintan Hastings Childhood Obesity Strategy British Retail Consortium British Hospitality Association BRC Amanda Ursell

    Trick or treat: how the obesity plan changed

    The childhood obesity strategy was watered down, Theresa May “dismantling” David Cameron’s ambitious plan in no fewer than 36 days. Channel 4’s Dispatches team had been handed a June draft of the plan: “a more ambitious plan that never saw… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint Unknown-19 Foodservice must fight the flab Out of Home News Analysis  Tom Allen Sodexo Rozzie Batchelar news-email Leatherhead Food Julian Hunt Jenny Pfleger Footprint Forum Eretia O'kennedy Department of Health Childhood Obesity Strategy CH&Co Gorup Caroline Fry Amanda Ursell

    Foodservice must fight the flab

    Forget the barriers and the lack of powerful policy, it’s time for action on obesity reports Amy Fetzer. You wouldn’t expect an event about a widely panned policy instrument to have an upbeat, positive vibe, but this week’s Footprint Forum:… Read More

  • Charlton House makes more salt cuts two years ahead of target

    OVER 1,500 foods hit new salt reduction targets as business delivers on Government Public Health Responsibility Deal Pledge.                       On the first anniversary of its commitment to the Government’s 2017… Read More

  • 2015 Health and Vitality Honours Winners announced

    LORDS CRICKET Ground today played host to the UK’s foodservice industry, as their achievements working behind-the-scenes to improve the nation’s health and wellbeing were recognised at this year’s Health & Vitality Honours during a lunchtime ceremony.        … Read More

  • Workplace plays key role in improving the nation’s health suggests new nutrition study

    AS GOVERNMENT data confirms that obesity will cost the UK more than £27 billion by 2015, a new project conducted among employees at Gatwick Airport and published in Complete Nutrition reveals that workplace interventions really can make a positive impact… Read More

  • At sixes and sevens

    NEW RESEARCH has suggested that five-a-day guideline for fruit and veg consumption should be lifted to seven-a-day. Footprint asked foodservice experts whether it’s achievable and, if so, how. Nicky Martin is head of nutrition at Compass Group UK & Ireland… Read More

  • Charlton House shakes 900kg of salt out of diet – more cuts to come

    CATERER COMMITS to new salt targets as it delivers on its first Governmental Public Health Responsibility Deal salt pledge.                     Charlton House is the first catering company to commit to the… Read More

  • New calorie reduction development tool launched

    THE FOOD Network Team, part of the Department of Health, has produced a Calorie Reduction Pledge Development Tool to support current and future partners to the calorie reduction pledge.                     The… Read More

  • Record entries to the Health & Vitality Honours 2014

    RECORD LEVELS of entries have been announced for this year’s Health & Vitality Honours, highlighting the huge strides being made in the foodservice sector amid changing attitudes towards health, nutrition and wellbeing across the industry.          … Read More

  • Something to fear

    FOODSERVICE OPERATORS are concerned about inconsistencies when it comes to nutritional labelling on menus. Footprint is therefore working with industry leaders and government on how to adapt the Responsibility Deal pledge.                  … Read More