Overweight Angels

So the voice of DoH(Department of Health) has spoken. Overweight NHS staff must shed the pounds, to set a good example to patients.
I am sure it’s the right thing to do. I am told that over 700,000 nurses, midwives and health visitors are thought to be obese.
It makes sense that our medical angels should set a good example and change their own eating behaviours and lifestyles.
I know it will cost the economy an estimated £50bn a year by 2050.
But I cant help thinking if I was lying in a hospital bed clinging to life will it be the girth of the medical professional that will matter or their skills.
Thank goodness for the sense and logic of Helen Giles, HR director at homeless charity Broadway, who has spoken up and said it is not HR's responsibility to tell employees they are overweight. Its our job to set up a working environment where staff are productive and want to come to work,
Ps if you know me you will know why this has struck a nerve - if you don’t know me I am six foot two blond and have a 28 inch waist line a six pack and a couple of
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SHAME Award

We’ve done it again! Just when I thought my precious profession was beginning to understand the importance of being in a relationship with our business colleagues we go right on out there and publically shoot ourselves in the foot. What a skill - the ability to fire off a broadside and still manage to pick off our own tiny podiatry digits is an outstanding result. I suggest we make it a new CIPD annual award. “The Shoot Him And ME in the foot award) or SHAME for short and the winner for 2009 must surely be one of the UK’s biggest financial institutions.
Headline news today confirmed that thousands of jobs will be going from the organisation HR roles will not be part of the cull. And why? because they are protected in their private enclave and are not seen as part of the general support services delivered to the business including IT and Finance. Now tell me I am wrong but if you are a disciple of the business partner model is this not an anomaly. A spokesperson for the company told one of our leading HR publications that HR jobs would not be part of the cull as HR is not part of group manufacturing unlike IT or Finance.
And it just keeps getting better, not only are they not included in the 9,000 job losses but forgive my literal interpretation they believe that in spite of the organisation needing to remove 9,000 posts HR “is not affected by this announcement,"
If I worked in HR and hundreds if not thousands of my colleagues were about to lose their livelihood because my organisation had made some suspect decisions around the recruitment, retention, development and remuneration of influential posts I think I should be affected or maybe shamed?