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Obese people will have to complete weight loss programmes before they can have operations, if proposals by a Welsh health board are approved.
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board also says requiring smokers to go on courses to help them give up before surgery may save over ?400,000.
It would not apply to cancer patients or people needing emergency treatment.
The board would have to cut costs by ?90m to break even in the next financial year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-21897865
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board also says requiring smokers to go on courses to help them give up before surgery may save over ?400,000.
It would not apply to cancer patients or people needing emergency treatment.
The board would have to cut costs by ?90m to break even in the next financial year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-21897865