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A morbidly obese diabetic who was given just months to live if he did not control his weight is on course to lose six stone after his health authority paid for a gastric-band operation following a landmark legal case.
The news, which will be studied by other health authorities facing similar demands, given rising obesity levels, comes as the European court of human rights prepares to consider the case next month. Tom Condliff, 63, a former police officer from Talke, Staffordshire, became the first man to take legal action against his primary care trust under the Human Rights Act after the trust refused him the ?5,500 operation that lawyers said would extend his life.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/22/tom-condliff-diabetic-gastric-band?newsfeed=true
The news, which will be studied by other health authorities facing similar demands, given rising obesity levels, comes as the European court of human rights prepares to consider the case next month. Tom Condliff, 63, a former police officer from Talke, Staffordshire, became the first man to take legal action against his primary care trust under the Human Rights Act after the trust refused him the ?5,500 operation that lawyers said would extend his life.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/22/tom-condliff-diabetic-gastric-band?newsfeed=true