More obese patients in the UK should be offered weight loss operations, say surgeons
May 11, 2016
Less than 1% of people who could benefit are getting surgery and the numbers are dropping and not rising, according to bariatric surgeons writing in the British Medical Journal. 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 as it would make people healthier and save the NHS money.