On the Agenda - Obese are hit by postcode lottery
By Gemma O'Reilly, PR Week UK, 27 January 2010, 8:00am
In a nutshell Senior surgeons branded access to NHS weight-loss surgery as 'inconsistent, unethical and completely dependent on geographical location' at a Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) conference last week. Constraints on NHS funding mean that, in some areas, guidelines are being ignored and patients denied access to surgery.
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