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SCOTLAND’S health boards have shelled out at least £7 million giving more than 1000 morbidly obese people weight loss surgery in just five years, according to new figures revealed today.
Scotland’s 14 health boards have been deluged by an increasing number of patients - a total of 1070 in the last five years - requiring surgical intervention to help them lose weight at a massive cost to taxpayers.
The number of surgeries, such as gastric bypasses, gastric bands and gastric sleeves, carried out has rocketed by almost 25 percent in the last five years - from 183 in 2009/10 to 224 last year.
The recorded cost of the operations is £6,879,487 - but because several health boards don’t record the cost of the procedures it is thought that at more that £10,000 per operation the true cost is more than £11,000,000.
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.c...nds-7m-on-scots-weight-loss-surgery-1-3621352
Scotland’s 14 health boards have been deluged by an increasing number of patients - a total of 1070 in the last five years - requiring surgical intervention to help them lose weight at a massive cost to taxpayers.
The number of surgeries, such as gastric bypasses, gastric bands and gastric sleeves, carried out has rocketed by almost 25 percent in the last five years - from 183 in 2009/10 to 224 last year.
The recorded cost of the operations is £6,879,487 - but because several health boards don’t record the cost of the procedures it is thought that at more that £10,000 per operation the true cost is more than £11,000,000.
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.c...nds-7m-on-scots-weight-loss-surgery-1-3621352