Surgery: Obesity

(asked on 29th October 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) obese patients and (b) smokers have been denied routine operations in each of the last three years.


Answered by
 Portrait
Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 5th November 2014

Information on the number of obese patients and smokers considered unsuitable for operations is not collected centrally.

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