NHS will deny non-urgent surgery to obese patients

The decision by a pair of NHS clinical commissioning groups to deny non-urgent surgery to obese patients until they lose weight has come under fire from the Royal College of Surgeons. Patients with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of over 40 will not be referred for routine surgery unless they are able to reduce it to under that number over a nine-month period.
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