Obesity: Surgery
(asked on 4th September 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many bariatric procedures were conducted in 2016.
This question was answered on 7th September 2017
A count of 6,702 finished consultant episodes with a primary diagnosis of obesity and with a main or secondary operative procedure for 'bariatric surgery' in England for 2016 includes provisional data which is for the months April-December 2016.