Issues With Allocations Of The Weight-Loss Surgery
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010Private Healthcare UK, 1.09.2010
Weight-loss surgery doctors raise the problem many patients that are eligible for the procedure, are missing it out.
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) stated that weight-loss operations rose from 238 in 2000 to 2,543 in 2007. 6,953 operations took place between April 2000 and March 2008. Doctors suggest that only 1 in 200 patients eligible for such procedure is actually offered one.
Doctors are also against the way the surgery is currently allocated. The main factor that makes a patient eligible for a weight-loss surgery is based on their BMI (Body Mass Index).









