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Obesity surgery could save taxpayers millions

Obesity surgery could save British taxpayers millions

Obesity surgery ‘could save UK millions’

LONDON, Sept 8 — Providing surgical treatment for people who are morbidly obese could save British taxpayer-funded health services and the wider economy hundreds of millions of pounds a year, leading surgeons said today. In an economic impact assessment of obesity surgery, the Royal College of Surgeons and the National Obesity Forum said the ...

Call for more obesity surgery to cut benefits and NHS bills

The extremely low availability of surgery to correct obesity is leading over the long term to the expenditure of hundreds of millions of pounds in benefit payments and costs to the NHS, a report says.

Report says obesity surgery can save health costs

Providing surgical treatment for people who are morbidly obese could save British taxpayer-funded health services and the wider economy hundreds of millions of pounds a year, leading surgeons said on Wednesday.

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