Thousands of parents could have wrongly been t o l d t h e i r c h i l d i s overweight because of a computer glitch, NHS bosses said yesterday.
Up to 2,500 youngsters who took part in the National Child Measurement programme last month may have been affected.
A “software fault” meant some children were placed in the wrong body mass index category – and letters sent out saying children of healthy weight were “overweight”.
Nhs Information Centre chief Tim Straughan said: “We are fixing the fault as soon as possible.”
Mirror UK