Thursday 12 May 2016

More obese patients in the UK should be offered weight loss operations, say surgeons

More obese patients in the UK should be offered weight loss operations, say surgeons Surgeons say more operations would save the NHS money in the long term.

The UK should dramatically increase the number of weight loss operations it offers to obese patients on the NHS, up from 6,000 up to 50,000 a year, according to surgeons who say it would make people healthier and save the NHS money.

Less than 1% of people who could benefit are getting surgery and the numbers are dropping not rising, according to bariatric surgeons writing in the British Medical Journal, who say that the UK is lagging behind other countries in Europe. Continue reading... The Guardian

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