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A GOVERNMENT adviser and leading surgeon has suggested that NHS funds would be better spent on providing surgery for morbidly obese patients than on palliative care for the terminally ill.
Andrew de Beaux, a consultant weight loss and gastric surgeon at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, believes it is unfair that some patients in the last few months of their life are given expensive treatments while obese patients are denied potentially life-saving operations on the NHS and could enjoy the health benefits for many years.
De Beaux said most people in the UK regard obesity as being a self-inflicted condition from eating too much, which is reflected in the small number of patients offered weight-loss surgery on the NHS in Scotland ? just 200 cases in 2011.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/health...minally-ill-says-government-adviser-1-2451361
Andrew de Beaux, a consultant weight loss and gastric surgeon at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, believes it is unfair that some patients in the last few months of their life are given expensive treatments while obese patients are denied potentially life-saving operations on the NHS and could enjoy the health benefits for many years.
De Beaux said most people in the UK regard obesity as being a self-inflicted condition from eating too much, which is reflected in the small number of patients offered weight-loss surgery on the NHS in Scotland ? just 200 cases in 2011.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/health...minally-ill-says-government-adviser-1-2451361