CCGs ration care for obese and smokers with new wave of restrictions

[Northerner]

Exclusive GP commissioners and NHS managers across England are targeting smokers and the obese with a raft of new restrictions limiting patients' access to treatment unless they modify their lifestyles, Pulse can reveal.

More than a quarter of PCTs are reporting that new restrictions on surgery based on lifestyle criteria have been introduced in their areas over the past year. But some GPs claim the ?fat and fags' restrictions are discriminating unfairly against patients, while a senior lawyer warned they could be open to legal challenge on equality grounds.

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[gail2]

great another go a\t obese people such as myself. WHY o why is being overwieght seen as such a selfinflicted moral sin nowdays