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Free stomach surgergy for obese UK teens

The UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is considering proposals to offer free stomach surgery for obese teens. The rationale is that it will reduce costs in the long term due to health issues arising from obesity such as diabetes and heart disease. That’s good, because at around 8,000 pounds the cost of the surgery is substantial. Of course they could consider off-shoring it since the cost of gastric banding surgery at Yanhee Hospital is about half that.

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This entry was posted on Monday, May 14th, 2007 at 1:02 pm and is filed under Weightloss/Slimming. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Free stomach surgergy for obese UK teens”

  1. » Gastric bypass surgery shown to reduce mortality rates - The Medical Travel Site Says:
    August 23rd, 2007 at 2:09 am

    […] Surgery has proven to be the only substantially effective treatment in this class of patients. Last year, surgeons performed 177,600 gastric-bypass operations in the U.S. But at a cost of $25,000 per operation there will be a lot of debate over whether or not private and government insurance should be expanded to cover more of the procedures. The issue has already been hammered out in the UK where obese teens will receive free stomach surgery. […]