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Call for more obesity surgery to cut benefits and NHS bills

Report urges increase in gastric bypass ops as tens of thousands of patients 'missing out' The extremely low availability of surgery to correct obesity is leading over the long term to the expenditure of hundreds of millions of pounds in benefit payments and costs to the NHS, a report says. Not offering a gastric bypass or gastric band surgery to people who are extremely overweight means that ...

More obesity ops 'will save cash'

Millions of pounds is lost in England by the failure of the NHS to provide more obesity operations, a study says.

Ten-Fold Rise In Obesity Surgery In England Since 2000

The use of bariatric or weight loss surgery has increased ten-fold in NHS hospitals in England since 2000, finds a study published on bmj.com. One reason for this rapid rise is increased demand from obese patients as they become more aware of surgery as a viable treatment option, suggest the researchers. Bariatric surgery is performed on people who are dangerously obese, for the purpose of ...

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One Of The Largest Lap Band Surgery Groups in Texas Just Got Larger - Texas Bariatric Specialists Announces a New ...

One of the most succesful Lap Band Surgery Practices in Texas just got larger. Texas Bariatric Specialists now performs Lap Band Surgery in San Antonio, Austin, Corpus Christi, Killeen, Temple, New Braunfels, Seguin and its newest office in Boerne.