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Obese patients and smokers banned from routine surgery in 'most severe ever' ration

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    Obese patients and smokers banned from routine surgery in 'most severe ever' ration

    "Obese people will be routinely refused operations across the NHS, health service bosses have warned, after one authority said it would limit procedures on an unprecedented scale.

    Hospital leaders in North Yorkshire said that patients with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or above – as well as smokers – will be barred from most surgery for up to a year amid increasingly desperate measures to plug a funding black hole. The restrictions will apply to standard hip and knee operations.

    The decision, described by the Royal College of Surgeons as the “most severe the modern NHS has ever seen”, led to warnings that other trusts will soon be forced to follow suit and rationing will become the norm if the current funding crisis continues.

    Chris Hopson, the head of NHS Providers, which represents acute care, ambulance and community services, said: “I think we are going to see more and more decisions like this.

    “It’s the only way providers are going to be able to balance their books, and in a way you have to applaud their honesty. You can see why they’re doing this – the service is bursting at the seams.”

    The announcement is the latest in a series of setbacks for patients who are facing rolling strikes by junior doctors that threaten to cripple the health service as winter approaches."

    Source: Obese patients and smokers banned from routine surgery  in 'most severe ever' rationing in the NHS

    Are they getting tax refund?

    #2
    Well seeing as the cost to the NHS from obesity is estimated to be larger than the cost from smokers and the tax smokers pay outweighs their cost to the NHS I am most miffed.

    Fat feckers

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      #3
      Great

      Can we ration HIV treatment to gay men as well?

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        #4
        "I'm not fat. I'm just big-boned...."

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          #5
          It's from a draft policy document which the VoY CCG are still reviewing; and they've stated that they have no intention of implementing policies that go against NHS England's recommendations, or that adversely affect clinical outcomes for any patients.

          In other words, it's probably one of those documents that are brought into existence as an unfortunate side effect of sending a few middle managers on a three-day course in "blue-sky thinking" at a TravelLodge in Chiswick.

          So the more amply proportioned among us shouldn't worry too much just yet if they find themselves needing minor surgery in the Vale of York

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            #6
            Originally posted by AtW View Post
            "Obese people will be routinely refused operations across the NHS, health service bosses have warned, after one authority said it would limit procedures on an unprecedented scale.

            Hospital leaders in North Yorkshire said that patients with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or above – as well as smokers – will be barred from most surgery for up to a year amid increasingly desperate measures to plug a funding black hole. The restrictions will apply to standard hip and knee operations.

            The decision, described by the Royal College of Surgeons as the “most severe the modern NHS has ever seen”, led to warnings that other trusts will soon be forced to follow suit and rationing will become the norm if the current funding crisis continues.

            Chris Hopson, the head of NHS Providers, which represents acute care, ambulance and community services, said: “I think we are going to see more and more decisions like this.

            “It’s the only way providers are going to be able to balance their books, and in a way you have to applaud their honesty. You can see why they’re doing this – the service is bursting at the seams.”

            The announcement is the latest in a series of setbacks for patients who are facing rolling strikes by junior doctors that threaten to cripple the health service as winter approaches."

            Source: Obese patients and smokers banned from routine surgery *in 'most severe ever' rationing in the NHS

            Are they getting tax refund?
            W@nkers will be excluded from free eye tests.
            "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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              #7
              Originally posted by Paddy View Post
              W@nkers will be excluded from free eye tests.
              That's YOU stuffed then!!
              “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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                #8
                I thought this was a thread about MF
                The Chunt of Chunts.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
                  It's from a draft policy document which the VoY CCG are still reviewing; and they've stated that they have no intention of implementing policies that go against NHS England's recommendations, or that adversely affect clinical outcomes for any patients.

                  In other words, it's probably one of those documents that are brought into existence as an unfortunate side effect of sending a few middle managers on a three-day course in "blue-sky thinking" at a TravelLodge in Chiswick.

                  So the more amply proportioned among us shouldn't worry too much just yet if they find themselves needing minor surgery in the Vale of York
                  You have to have a BMI over 30 to suffer this e.g. be like MF and not have any other conditions.

                  Oh and I forgot - one trick Bliar did which others have followed with is leak "ideas" to see what the public reaction is to them. If the reaction is favourable then it becomes policy if the reaction is very negative it disappears for a long time....
                  "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
                    Oh and I forgot - one trick Bliar did which others have followed with is leak "ideas" to see what the public reaction is to them. If the reaction is favourable then it becomes policy if the reaction is very negative it disappears for a long time....
                    Public will approve this one because nobody would admit to actually being fat

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