Acute care

Weight loss surgery could save NHS £56m a year

2010-09-08T11:08:00

The failure to offer obese patients weight-loss surgery is costing the wider economy hundreds of millions of pounds every year, leading surgeons have said.

Primary care trusts are ignoring national guidance on who should be eligible for obesity surgery, a report by the Office of Health Economics says.

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