Obesity

(asked on 6th December 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department will take to ensure that clinical commissioning groups follow criteria for surgical interventions in the NICE clinical guideline CG189, on obesity: identification, assessment and management of obesity in children, young people and adults.


Answered by
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David Mowat
This question was answered on 12th December 2016

Managing the identification, assessment and management of obesity in children, young people and adults is a matter for clinical commissioning groups, who have the remit for deciding policy on services within their commissioning responsibility.

Where there is National Institute for Health and Care Excellence clinical guidance, then the commissioner would need to give this due regard when formulating policy.

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