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If you are overweight, then NO Operation!!!

The News Of The Word story is as serious as it get's!!!


Link & Article below:-

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/stor.../news3.shtmlBy Guy Basnett

OVERWEIGHT patients will be forced to slim before being allowed routine operations on the NHS.
The News of the World has seen secret memos revealing that the bombshell policy — which rules out surgery for ONE IN FIVE adults — is to be rolled out across Britain by the end of the year.

Doctors will ration treatment to patients according to their Body Mass Index, or BMI — a formula based on height and weight.

And you don't have even have to be as chubby as the lovely Dawn French to be refused. If you have a BMI of 30 you will be denied non-emergency ops such as hip and knee surgery or procedures like IVF treatment.


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You will be ordered onto an intensive slimming and exercise regime then reviewed in six months.



The shock move follows our revelation last week that smokers must quit to get surgery.

Nine primary care trusts have ALREADY slapped on the anti-fat rule—North Staffs, Stoke-on-Trent, Lincs, North Lincs, Milton Keynes, Herefordshire, West Herts, East and North Herts and Suffolk.

Health chiefs last night defended the move, insisting overweight patients have worse recovery rates.

Dr Brian Crompton, acting chief executive of the North Lincs trust, said public money must be spent effectively, adding: "We strongly encourage healthier lifestyles... particularly where a change can have a proven positive effect on outcomes."

Patients are not so convinced.

At 13st11lb Stoke widow Barbara Colclough, 68, doesn't look overweight. Still she was denied surgery on her right hip because her BMI is 32 and told to lose half a stone.

But with the agony of a diseased joint, working out is not easy.

Barbara said: "This is wrong. All your life you pay into the NHS, then they turn you away. It upset me terribly. I was so shocked."




IT'S DR'S ORDERS

By Dr Hilary Jones

THIS is an unprecedented move by the NHS. But it does make sense.
The heavier you are the quicker artificial joints wear out. Ops are harder in obese patients. Hospital stays and medicine requirements are greater too. If the surgeon had a way of making your operation 20 per cent safer and more effective, you'd expect him to do it.

So why, when you can lose weight and do this yourself, shouldn't you?






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